Thematic Bible: Cedron
Thematic Bible
Cedron » Brook of, running south under the eastern wall of jerusalem
On the day you do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die. Your blood will be on your own head.”
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So I went up at night by way of the valley and inspected the wall. Then heading back, I entered through the Valley Gate and returned.
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The whole valley—the corpses, the ashes, and all the fields as far as the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate to the east—will be holy to the Lord. It will never be uprooted or demolished again.”
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Cedron » Idols destroyed on the banks of » Josiah
The king tore down the altars that were on the roof—Ahaz’s upper chamber that the kings of Judah had made—and the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Then he smashed them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.
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He brought out the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
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Cedron » Idols destroyed on the banks of » hezekiah
The priests went to the entrance of the Lord’s temple to cleanse it. They took all the unclean things they found in the Lord’s sanctuary to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple. Then the Levites received them and took them outside to the Kidron Valley.
Cedron » Idols destroyed on the banks of » By asa
He also removed his grandmother Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.
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Cedron » Its channel changed by hezekiah
Many people gathered and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land; they said, “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”
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