Kidron

Identified as

Kidron River

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.780° N, 35.240° E

Kidron· Valley of Jehoshaphat· Cedron· Valley of Jehoshaphat

• κέδρος·Kidron
• יְהוֹשָׁפָט+H6010N«H6010=עֵ֫מֶק·Valley of Jehoshaphat
• קִדְרוֹן·Kidron

1. 2 Samuel 15:23קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
2. 1 Kings 2:37קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   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.”
3. 1 Kings 15:13קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   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.
4. 2 Kings 23:4קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
5. 2 Kings 23:6קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   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.
6. 2 Kings 23:12קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   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.
7. 2 Chronicles 15:16קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
8. 2 Chronicles 29:16קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   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.
9. 2 Chronicles 30:14קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
   They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
10. Jeremiah 31:40קִדְרוֹן · Kidron
    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.”
11. Joel 3:2יְהוֹשָׁפָט+H6010N«H6010=עֵ֫מֶק · Valley of Jehoshaphat
    I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. There I will enter into judgment against them concerning My people, My inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations as they divided up My land.
12. Joel 3:12יְהוֹשָׁפָט+H6010N«H6010=עֵ֫מֶק · Valley of Jehoshaphat
    Let the nations be roused and advance to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit down to judge all the nations on every side.
13. John 18:1κέδρος · Kidron
    After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.