Cedron

How Nave’s arranged it

• (Also called KIDRON)
• Brook of, running south under the eastern wall of Jerusalem1 Kings 2:37Nehemiah 2:15Jeremiah 31:40
• Idols destroyed on the banks of
• By Asa1 Kings 15:13
• Josiah2 Kings 23:62 Kings 23:12
• Hezekiah2 Chronicles 29:16
• Its channel changed by Hezekiah2 Chronicles 32:4

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. 1 Kings 2:37

   On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 2:372 voices

   “For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out,....

   “Thy blood shall be upon thine own head - Thou knowest what to expect; if thou disobey my orders thou shalt certainly be slain, and then thou shalt be considered as a self-murderer; thou alone shalt be answerable for thy own death. Solomon knew that Shimei was a seditious man, and he chose to keep him under his own eye; for such a man at large, in favorable circumstances, might do much evil. His bitter revilings of David were a sufficient proof.

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2. 1 Kings 15:13

   He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

   ›Commentary on 1 Kings 15:132 voices

   “In the meantime, Asa devoted himself to the reconstruction of the ruins of religion. He destroyed the temples of the idols, smashed the statues, set the sacred woods on fire and removed the ignominy of the effeminate priests. He also drove away Maacah, the mother …

   “Furthermore, the adversary tempted Job through his children and his possessions, and when he could not prevail over him, he went and brought against him his armor, and he came, bringing with him a daughter of Eve, who had caused Adam to sink, and through her mouth he said to Job, her righteous husband, "Curse God." But Job rejected her counsel. King Asa also conquered the Accursed-of-life, when he wished to come in against him, through his mother.

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3. 2 Kings 23:6

   He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 23:62 voices

   “And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord,....

   “He brought out the grove - He brought out the idol Asherah. See at the end of 2Ki 21:26 (note). Upon the graves of the children of the people - I believe this; means the burial-place of the common people.

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4. 2 Kings 23:12

   He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

   ›Commentary on 2 Kings 23:122 voices

   “And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made,....

   “On the top of the upper chamber - Altars built on the flat roof of the house. Such altars were erected to the sun, moon, stars, etc.

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5. 2 Chronicles 29:16

   So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

   ›Commentary on 2 Chronicles 29:162 voices

   “And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it,....

   “And the priests went - The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labor they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but as the Levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron; in this work eight days more were occupied, and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days.

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6. 2 Chronicles 32:4

   Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.

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   “So there was gathered much people together,....

   “Stopped all the fountains - This was prudently done, for without water how could an immense army subsist in an arid country? No doubt the Assyrian army suffered much through this, as a Christian army did eighteen hundred years after this. When the crusaders came, in a.d. 1099, to besiege Jerusalem, the people of the city stopped up the wells, so that the Christian army was reduced to the greatest necessities and distress.

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7. Nehemiah 2:15

   so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

   ›Commentary on Nehemiah 2:152 voices

   “Then went I up in the night by the brook,.... The brook Kidron: and viewed the wall; that was on that side: and turned back; did not go quite round the wall, the way perhaps being obstructed with rubbish, and was unpassable or he had not time to do it: and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned; into the city, the same way he went out of it, Neh 2:13.

   “The brook - The Kidron watercourse, which skirted the city on the east. Turned back - i. e. he turned westward, and having made the circuit of the city, re-entered by the valley-gate.

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8. Jeremiah 31:40

   The whole valley of the dead bodies and ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley, to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will never again be uprooted or demolished.”

   ›Commentary on Jeremiah 31:402 voices

   Then it continues, "to the corner gate." It is made a corner lest any true justice or any certain victory be thought demonstrable in this world. And the corner gate itself, though it may be "in the east," whence the light originates, is nevertheless called "horse gate," this to teach us that we need to ride and to fight, so that we may deserve to hear with the Lord, "You mounted your horses and the salvation of your chariot."

   “And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes,....

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