Kidron Valley
kid'-ron (Kedron; the King James Version Cedron): A place
which, in obedience to Antiochus Sidetes, Cendebaeus fortified
(1 Macc 15:39 ff), to which, when defeated, he fled, hotly
pursued by John and Judas, sons of Simon the Maccabee, who
burned the city (1 Macc 16:4 ff). It is named along with
Jamnia (Yebna) and Azotus (Esdud). It is possibly...
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Also called CEDRON
-A valley and stream between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives
1Ki 2:37; Ne 2:15; Jer 31:40
-David flees from Absalom across
2Sa 15:23
-Destruction of idols at, by Asa, Josiah, and the Levites
1Ki 15:13; 2Ki 23:6,12; 2Ch 29:16
-Source of, closed by Hezekiah
2Ch 32:4
-Jesus crossed, on the night of his agony
Joh 18:1...
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(turbid), The brook, a torrent or valley, not a "brook," or,
as in the margin of Revised Version, "ravine;" Gr. winter
torrent. It was close to Jerusalem, between the city and the
Mount of Olives. it is now commonly known as the "valley of
Jehoshaphat." The channel of the valley of Jehoshaphat is
nothing more than the dry bed of a wintry torre...
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= Kedron = Cedron, turbid, the winter torrent which flows
through the Valley of Jehoshaphat, on the eastern
side of
Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives.
This valley
is known in Scripture only by the name "the brook
Kidron." David
crossed this brook bare-foot and weeping, when
fleeing from
Absalom (2 Sam. 15:23, 30), and it ...
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And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the
people passed over: the king also himself passed over the
brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way
of the wilderness....
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For it shall be, [that] on the day thou goest out, and passest
over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou
shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head....
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And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the
LORD, to cleanse [it], and brought out all the uncleanness
that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of
the house of the LORD. And the Levites took [it], to carry
[it] out abroad into the brook Kidron....
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And the altars that [were] on the top of the upper chamber of
Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which
Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD,
did the king beat down, and brake [them] down from thence, and
cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron....
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And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the
priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to
bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that
were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of
heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of
Kidron, and carried the ashes of them un...
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