קִדְרוֹן

2 Samuel 15:23 קִדְר֔וֹן Kidron

Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.

Here: The ravine on Jerusalem's east side, between the city and the Mount of Olives. Crossing it means actually leaving the city.

1 Kings 2:37 קִדְר֔וֹן Kidron

On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”

Here: The ravine on Jerusalem's east side. Crossing it meant heading toward the Mount of Olives road and the land of Benjamin, where Shimei came from (Bahurim, 2 Sam 16:5).

1 Kings 15:13 קִדְרֽוֹן׃ Kidron

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Here: The ravine on Jerusalem's east side, below the temple mount, used for graves and as the dumping place for destroyed cult objects. Burning it there put it outside the holy city, in an unclean place.

2 Kings 23:4 קִדְר֔וֹן Kidron

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

Here: The valley just east of the temple mount. It was a burial area and the place where earlier kings had destroyed and dumped illicit cult objects.

2 Kings 23:6 קִדְר֔וֹן קִדְר֖וֹן Kidron

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

Here: Name of the eastern valley. It is often linked to the root qdr, 'to be dark, gloomy', though that origin is uncertain. Kings and Chronicles repeatedly use it as the place where condemned cult objects are destroyed (1 Kgs 15:13; 2 Kgs 23:4, 12; 2 Chr 29:16; 30:14).

2 Kings 23:12 קִדְרֽוֹן׃ Kidron

He pulled down the altars that the kings of Judah had set up on the roof near the upper chamber of Ahaz, and the altars that Manasseh had set up in the two courtyards of the house of the LORD. The king pulverized them there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

Here: The valley just east of the temple mount, used for graves and as the dump for the remains of banned cult objects (1 Kings 15:13; 2 Kings 23:4, 6).

2 Chronicles 15:16 קִדְרֽוֹן׃ Kidron

King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

Here: The ravine on the east side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. Kings who purged the temple dumped and destroyed cult objects here (2 Chr 29:16; 30:14; 2 Kgs 23:4–12). It was a place outside the holy city for defiling things.

2 Chronicles 29:16 קִדְר֖וֹן Kidron

So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 30:14 קִדְרֽוֹן׃ Kidron

They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.

Jeremiah 31:40 קִדְר֜וֹן Kidron

The whole valley of the dead bodies and 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 again be uprooted or demolished.”

Here: The valley along the east side of Jerusalem, between the city and the Mount of Olives. The name probably comes from a root meaning 'dark'. Kings who reformed worship destroyed idols there (1 Kgs 15:13; 2 Kgs 23:4, 6, 12).