Kedron in Biblical History

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What is the Kedron?
KE'DRON or KID'RON
(black brook) is a small stream dry in summer, but grows into a torrent in the rainy season; rises 1 1/2 miles north-west of Jerusalem; runs in a south-eastern direction; strikes the north-eastern corner of the wall of the city; sweeps through the valley of Jehoshaphat in a deep gorge along the eastern side of the city, whose wall rises 100 feet above its bottom, while on the other side the peak of Mount Olivet rises about 500 feet; breaks through a still narrower cleft between the Hill of Offence and Moriah, and continues its course through a wild and dismal channel through the wilderness of Judah, passing by the curious convent of Mar Saba, until it reaches the north-western shore of the Dead Sea. Its name perhaps refers to the gloom of the valley, or perhaps to the peculiar nature of impurity connected with it. Here Athaliah was executed, 2 Kgs 11:16; here Maachah's idols were burnt, 1 Kgs 15:13; 2 Chr 15:16; and hither the impurities and abominations of idol worship were regularly carried and destroyed.2 Chr 29:16: 2 Chr 30:14; 2 Kgs 23:4, 2 Kgs 23:6, 2 Kgs 23:12. In the time of Josiah it became the common burial-place of the city, 2 Kgs 23:16, and so it is to-day. The two events, however, connected with it, and which give it its greatest interest, are David's crossing it on his flight from Jerusalem when Absalom rebelled, 2 Sam 15:23, 2 Sam 15:30, and Christ's crossing it on his way to Gethsemane. John 18:1; Mark 14:26; Luke 22:39. As Caesar crossed the Rubicon for the military conquest of the world, so Christ crossed the Kedron for the salvation of the world.

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