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the brook Kidron

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Named at John 18:1: when Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

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Across the brook Kidron: “I am he”; Peter cuts off Malchus’ ear (Event)Across the br…Ittai the Gittite answers the king, “As the LORD lives”, and the king passes over the brook Kidron (Event)Ittai the Git…Asa reigns over Judah and removes Maacah his mother from being queen (Event)The king commands the vessels made for Baal to be brought out and burns them in the fields of the Kidron, and burns the Asherah at the brook Kidron (Event)The king comm…The king defiles Topheth in the valley of the children of Hinnom, and breaks down the altars and casts their dust into the brook Kidron (Event)The king defi…Asa removes Maacah as queen mother and burns her image at Kidron (Event)Asa removes M…The priests and Levites cleanse the house and report to Hezekiah (Event)The assembly removes altars to Kidron and kills the Passover (Event)The assembly …

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  • 1KI 2:36–38, engwebp

    36The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.

    37For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

    38Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.

  • 1KI 15:9–15, engwebp

    9In the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel, Asa began to reign over Judah.

    10He reigned forty-one years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name was Maacah the daughter of Abishalom.

    11Asa did that which was right in the LORD’s eyes, as David his father did.

    12He put away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.

    13He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

    14But the high places were not taken away. Nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect with the LORD all his days.

    15He brought into the LORD’s house the things that his father had dedicated, and the things that he himself had dedicated: silver, gold, and utensils.

  • 2CH 15:16–19, engwebp

    16Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

    17But the high places were not taken away out of Israel; nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.

    18He brought the things that his father had dedicated and that he himself had dedicated, silver, gold, and vessels into God’s house.

    19There was no more war to the thirty-fifth year of Asa’s reign.

  • 2CH 29:15–19, engwebp

    15They gathered their brothers, sanctified themselves, and went in, according to the commandment of the king by the LORD’s words, to cleanse the LORD’s house.

    16The priests went into the inner part of the LORD’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the LORD’s temple into the court of the LORD’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

    17Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month they came to the LORD’s porch. They sanctified the LORD’s house in eight days, and on the sixteenth day of the first month they finished.

    18Then they went in to Hezekiah the king within the palace and said, “We have cleansed all the LORD’s house, including the altar of burnt offering with all its vessels, and the table of show bread with all its vessels.

    19Moreover, we have prepared and sanctified all the vessels which King Ahaz threw away in his reign when he was unfaithful. Behold, they are before the LORD’s altar.”

  • 2CH 30:13–17, engwebp

    13Many people assembled at Jerusalem to keep the feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great assembly.

    14They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.

    15Then they killed the Passover on the fourteenth day of the second month. The priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought burnt offerings into the LORD’s house.

    16They stood in their place after their order, according to the law of Moses the man of God. The priests sprinkled the blood which they received of the hand of the Levites.

    17For there were many in the assembly who had not sanctified themselves; therefore the Levites were in charge of killing the Passovers for everyone who was not clean, to sanctify them to the LORD.

  • 2KI 23:4–7, engwebp

    4The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky; and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

    5He got rid of the idolatrous priests whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah and in the places around Jerusalem; those also who burned incense to Baal, to the sun, to the moon, to the planets, and to all the army of the sky.

    6He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

    7He broke down the houses of the male shrine prostitutes that were in the LORD’s house, where the women wove hangings for the Asherah.

  • 2KI 23:10–14, engwebp

    10He defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech.

    11He took away the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun, at the entrance of the LORD’s house, by the room of Nathan Melech the officer who was in the court; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

    12The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

    13The king defiled the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mountain of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon.

    14He broke in pieces the pillars, cut down the Asherah poles, and filled their places with men’s bones.

  • 2SA 15:19–23, engwebp

    19Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why do you also go with us? Return, and stay with the king; for you are a foreigner and also an exile. Return to your own place.

    20Whereas you came but yesterday, should I today make you go up and down with us, since I go where I may? Return, and take back your brothers. Mercy and truth be with you.”

    21Ittai answered the king and said, “As the LORD lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely in what place my lord the king is, whether for death or for life, your servant will be there also.”

    22David said to Ittai, “Go and pass over.” Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones who were with him.

    23All 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.

  • JER 31:38–40, engwebp

    38“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the city will be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel to the gate of the corner.

    39The measuring line will go out further straight onward to the hill Gareb, and will turn toward Goah.

    40The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”

  • JHN 18:1–11, engwebp

    1When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

    2Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.

    3Judas then, having taken a detachment of soldiers and officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches, and weapons.

    4Jesus therefore, knowing all the things that were happening to him, went out and said to them, “Who are you looking for?”

    5They answered him, “Jesus of Nazareth.” Jesus said to them, “I am he.” Judas also, who betrayed him, was standing with them.

    6When therefore he said to them, “I am he,” they went backward and fell to the ground.

    7Again therefore he asked them, “Who are you looking for?” They said, “Jesus of Nazareth.”

    8Jesus answered, “I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,”

    9that the word might be fulfilled which he spoke, “Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.”

    10Simon Peter therefore, having a sword, drew it, struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.

    11Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”

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Geographic sources & candidates

Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Kidron” by name and 12 shared verses. The leading identification is Kidron River (confidence 1000 of 1000). The dataset gives no point for it, only the region, river or route it lies in or along, so no point is drawn for it.

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2 Samuel 15:23 Open that verse

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.

1 Kings 2:37 Open that verse

For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

1 Kings 15:13 Open that verse

He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah. Asa cut down her image and burned it at the brook Kidron.

2 Kings 23:4 Open that verse

The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of the LORD’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky; and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6 Open that verse

He brought out the Asherah from the LORD’s house, outside of Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Kings 23:12 Open that verse

The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 15:16 Open that verse

Also Maacah, the mother of Asa the king, he removed from being queen mother, because she had made an abominable image for an Asherah; so Asa cut down her image, ground it into dust, and burned it at the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 29:16 Open that verse

The priests went into the inner part of the LORD’s house to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the LORD’s temple into the court of the LORD’s house. The Levites took it from there to carry it out to the brook Kidron.

2 Chronicles 30:14 Open that verse

They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.

Jeremiah 31:40 Open that verse

The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, will be holy to the LORD. It will not be plucked up or thrown down any more forever.”

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.

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Entry: the brook Kidron (place-kidron)
Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/kidron
Current wording: Named at John 18:1: when Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered.
Cited evidence: 1KI 2:36–38, engwebp / 1KI 15:9–15, engwebp / 2CH 15:16–19, engwebp / 2CH 29:15–19, engwebp / 2CH 30:13–17, engwebp / 2KI 23:4–7, engwebp / 2KI 23:10–14, engwebp / 2SA 15:19–23, engwebp (and 2 more of 10)
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