The human sacrifices performed in Ge-hinnom by Ahaz and Manasseh, and Josiah’s subsequent radical reforms must have made a deep impact on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on young Jeremiah. Given this background, it is possible to understand the impact that the imagery of a valley filled with dead people in Jeremiah’s two Ge-hinnom prophecies (7:29–34; 19:1–15) would have had on the populace of Jerusalem. They had recently lived through the reforms and had seen the valley desecrated with the bones