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Cedron
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kid'-ron (black; sad)
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Easton's Bible Dictionary
The black torrent, the brook flowing through the ravine
below the eastern wall of Jerusalem ( John
18:1 ). (See KIDRON)
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
black; sad
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(John 18:1) [SEE FROM 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 ( 2
Samuel 15:23 , 15:30 ), and it was frequently crossed by our Lord in his journeyings
to and fro ( John 18:1 ). Here Asa burned the obscene idols of his mother ( 1
Kings 15:13 ), and here Athaliah was executed ( 2 Kings 11:16 ). It afterwards
became the receptacle for all manner of impurities ( 2 Chronicles 29:16 ; 30:14
); and in the time of Josiah this valley was the common cemetery of the city (
2 Kings 23:6 ; Compare Jeremiah 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 Joel
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.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
se'-dron.
See From KIDRON.
kid'-ron (Kedron; the King James Version Cedron):
A place which, in obedience to Antiochus Sidetes, Cendebaeus fortified (1 Macc
15:39), 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). 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).
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