The Bible describes hell as the punishment that follows the final judgment, pictured as unquenchable fire and as outer darkness. Jesus speaks of it in his teaching (Mark 9:43-48; Matthew 25:31-46; Luke 16:19-31), and Revelation adds the lake of fire, “the second death” (Revelation 20:14). English Bibles use the one word hell for more than one word in the original. Gehenna is the Greek form of the Valley of Hinnom at Jerusalem, where Jeremiah 7:31 says the people of Judah…
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