2 Samuel 15:23
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23 While all the country was weeping with a loud voice, all the people passed over. The king also passed over (A)the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over toward (B)the way of the wilderness.
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1 Kings 2:37
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37 For on the day you go out and (A)cross over the [a]brook Kidron, you will know for certain that you shall surely die; (B)your blood shall be on your own head.”
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- 1 Kings 2:37 Or wadi
1 Kings 15:13
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13 [a](A)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [b]as an Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and (B)burned it at the brook Kidron.
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- 1 Kings 15:13 Lit also Maacah his mother and he removed her
- 1 Kings 15:13 Or for Asherah
2 Kings 23:4
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Reforms under Josiah
4 Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest and (A)the priests of the second order and the [a]doorkeepers, (B)to bring out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, for [b]Asherah, and for all the host of heaven; and (C)he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
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- 2 Kings 23:4 Lit keepers of the threshold
- 2 Kings 23:4 I.e. a wooden symbol of a female deity, and so throughout the ch
2 Kings 23:6
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6 He brought out the Asherah from the house of the Lord outside Jerusalem to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and (A)ground it to dust, and (B)threw its dust on the graves of the [a]common people.
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- 2 Kings 23:6 Lit sons of the people
2 Kings 23:12
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12 (A)The altars which were on the roof, the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and (B)the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the Lord, the king broke down; and he [a]smashed them there and (C)threw their dust into the brook Kidron.
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- 2 Kings 23:12 Or ran from there
2 Chronicles 15:16
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16 (A)He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from the position of queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [a]as (B)an Asherah, and (C)Asa cut down her horrid image, crushed it and burned it at the brook Kidron.
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- 2 Chronicles 15:16 Or for Asherah
2 Chronicles 29:16
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16 So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of the Lord to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of the Lord they brought out to the court of the house of the Lord. Then the Levites received it to carry out to (A)the Kidron [a]valley.
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- 2 Chronicles 29:16 Or wadi
2 Chronicles 30:14
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14 They arose and removed the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also (A)removed all the incense altars and (B)cast them into the brook Kidron.
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Jeremiah 31:40
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40 And (A)the whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook (B)Kidron, to the corner of the (C)Horse Gate toward the east, shall be (D)holy to the Lord; it will not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”
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