The Kidron is a valley and seasonal brook running along the east side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. It descends toward the Dead Sea wilderness. The name appears in 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and 2 more in the King James text.
About Kidron Valley
The Kidron is a valley and seasonal brook running along the east side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. It descends toward the Dead Sea wilderness.
Its place in the story
Kings of Judah such as Asa, Hezekiah, and Josiah destroyed idols and burned them in the Kidron valley during their reforms. David crossed the Kidron as he fled from Absalom. It served as a boundary and a place of cleansing from idolatry.
Kidron Valley in Scripture (KJV)
“And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.”
“For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.”
“And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.”
“And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.”
“And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.”
“And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.”
“And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house of the LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.”
The Kidron is a valley and seasonal brook running along the east side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. It descends toward the Dead Sea wilderness. The name appears in 2 Samuel, 1 Kings, 2 Kings and 2 more in the King James text.
What happened at Kidron Valley?
Kings of Judah such as Asa, Hezekiah, and Josiah destroyed idols and burned them in the Kidron valley during their reforms. David crossed the Kidron as he fled from Absalom. It served as a boundary and a place of cleansing from idolatry.