Dictionaries :: Kidron

Kidron:

= Kedron = Cedron, turbid, the winter torrent which flows through the Valley of Jehoshaphat, on the eastern side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. This valley is known in Scripture only by the name "the brook Kidron." David crossed this brook bare-foot and weeping, when fleeing from Absalom (2Sa 15:23,30), and it was frequently crossed by our Lord in his journeyings to and fro (Jhn 18:1). Here Asa burned the obscene idols of his mother (1Ki 15:13), and here Athaliah was executed (2Ki 11:16). It afterwards became the receptacle for all manner of impurities (2Ch 29:16; 30:14); and in the time of Josiah this valley was the common cemetery of the city (2Ki 23:6; Jer 26:23).

Through this mountain ravine no water runs, except after heavy rains in the mountains round about Jerusalem. Its length from its head to en-Rogel is 2 3/4 miles. Its precipitous, rocky banks are filled with ancient tombs, especially the left bank opposite the temple area. The greatest desire of the Jews is to be buried there, from the idea that the Kidron is the "valley of Jehoshaphat" mentioned in Joe 3:2.

Below en-Rogel the Kidron has no historical or sacred interest. It runs in a winding course through the wilderness of Judea to the north-western shore of the Dead Sea. Its whole length, in a straight line, is only some 20 miles, but in this space its descent is about 3,912 feet. (See KEDRON.)

Recent excavations have brought to light the fact that the old bed of the Kidron is about 40 feet lower than its present bed, and about 70 feet nearer the sanctuary wall.

Kidron:

obscure; making black or sad

Kidron:

kid'-ron (Kedron; the King James Version Cedron): A place which, in obedience to Antiochus Sidetes, Cendebaeus fortified (1 Macc 15:39 ff), to which, when defeated, he fled, hotly pursued by John and Judas, sons of Simon the Maccabee, who burned the city (1 Macc 16:4 ff). It is named along with Jamnia (Yebna) and Azotus (Esdud). It is possibly identical with Katrah], a village about 3 miles Southwest of ‘Aqir (Ekron).

Kidron: Name Of

Called also Cedron

Kidron: A Valley and Stream

Between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives,

1Ki 2:37; Neh 2:15; Jer 31:40.

Kidron: David Flees from Absalom Across

2Sa 15:23

Kidron: Destruction of Idols At

By Asa, Josiah, and the Levites,

1Ki 15:13; 2Ki 23:6, 12; 2Ch 29:16.

Kidron: Source Of

Closed by Hezekiah,

2Ch 32:4.

Kidron: Jesus Crossed

On the night of his agony,

Jhn 18:1.