Kidron
Kidron appears in 14 verses of the Bible, from 2 Samuel to John.
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David replied, “All right, come with us.” So Ittai and all his men and their families went along.
2 Samuel 15:22 · Read the chapter -
On the day you so much as cross the Kidron Valley, you will surely die; and your blood will be on your own head.”
1 Kings 2:37 · Read the chapter -
Then the king instructed Hilkiah the high priest and the priests of the second rank and the Temple gatekeepers to remove from the Lord’s Temple all the articles that were used to worship Baal, Asherah, and all the powers of the heavens. The king had all these things burned outside Jerusalem on the terraces of the Kidron Valley, and he carried the ashes away to Bethel.
2 Kings 23:4 · Read the chapter -
King Asa even deposed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made an obscene Asherah pole. He cut down her obscene pole, broke it up, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
2 Chronicles 15:16 · Read the chapter -
So, though it was still dark, I went up the Kidron Valley instead, inspecting the wall before I turned back and entered again at the Valley Gate.
Nehemiah 2:15 · Read the chapter -
And the entire area—including the graveyard and ash dump in the valley, and all the fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the Horse Gate—will be holy to the Lord. The city will never again be captured or destroyed.”
Jeremiah 31:40 · Read the chapter
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