00:00What I wish I knew, at 15 instead of 25.
00:03The scariest stories in the Bible happened in a real place,
00:07right on Jerusalem's edge.
00:10Let's unpack the valley that went from cursed to celebrated.
00:14Tucked along the edge of Jerusalem, the Valley of Hinnom, also called Gehenna,
00:18was once the city's darkest secret.
00:21In ancient times, this gorge echoed with rituals no one likes to talk about.
00:27Kings sacrificed children to the god Moloch,
00:30fueling legends and curses that haunted the valley for centuries.
00:34The prophet Jeremiah called it the Valley of Slaughter,
00:37a warning carved into history after the horrors he witnessed.
00:42Later, fires burned here non-stop,
00:44turning Gehenna into the Bible's main image of hell,
00:48a place for punishment and endless flames.
00:51Even Judas Iscariot's tragic end is linked to its field of blood.
00:55But here's the twist.
00:57Today, this so-called hell is a green escape,
01:01packed with parks, playgrounds and Israel's longest suspension bridge.
01:05From fire and fear to family picnics,
01:07talk about a transformation.
01:08So let's try it to tell to see people pretty soon.
01:09Do you know we knew that ļæ½ fand sons Hinnom,
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