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Kidron Valley Scripture - 2 Chronicles 29:16

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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Kidron Valley in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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Kidron Valley Scripture - 2 Kings 23:12

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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Kidron Valley in Naves Topical Bible

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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Kidron Valley Scripture - 2 Kings 23:4

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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Kidron Valley in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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Kidron Valley Scripture - 2 Chronicles 15:16

And also [concerning] Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped [it], and burnt [it] at the brook Kidron....

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Kidron Valley in Easton's Bible Dictionary

= 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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Kidron Valley Scripture - 1 Kings 15:13

And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from [being] queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt [it] by the brook Kidron....

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Kidron in Hitchcock's Bible Names

obscure; making black or sad...

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