קִדְרוֹןQidrôwn
proper name: of wady just east of Jerusalem (2 Samuel 15:23; 1 Kings 2:37; 1 Kings 15:13; 2 Chronicles 15:16; 2 Kings 23:6)
Pronunciation: kid-rone' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6939
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 11 times in the Bible.
- 2 Samuel 15:23 Everyone cried loudly as the king and his followers passed by. They crossed the Kidron Valley and then went out toward the wilderness.
- 1 Kings 2:37 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 15:13 He 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 and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Kings 23:4 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 23:6 The king removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s Temple and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it. Then he ground the ashes of the pole to dust and threw the dust over the graves of the people.
- 2 Kings 23:12 Josiah tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had built on the palace roof above the upper room of Ahaz. The king destroyed the altars that Manasseh had built in the two courtyards of the Lord’s Temple. He smashed them to bits and scattered the pieces in the Kidron Valley.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).