2Sa 15:23, 1Ki 15:13, 2Ki 23:6, 2Ch 29:16, Jer 31:40, Joh 18:1 | TSK | STEP | all the country. the brook.The brook Kidron, which is but a few paces broad, runs along the valley of Jehoshaphat, east of Jerusalem, to the south-west corner of the city, and then, turning to the south-east, empties itself into the Dead Sea. Like the Ilissus, it is dry at least nine months in the year, being only furnished with water in the winter, and after heavy rains: its bed is narrow and deep, which indicates that it must formerly have been the channel for waters which have found some other, and probably subterraneous course. Kidron. Cedron. the wilderness.

2 Samuel 15:23

all the country.

the brook.The brook Kidron, which is but a few paces broad, runs along the valley of Jehoshaphat, east of Jerusalem, to the south-west corner of the city, and then, turning to the south-east, empties itself into the Dead Sea. Like the Ilissus, it is dry at least nine months in the year, being only furnished with water in the winter, and after heavy rains: its bed is narrow and deep, which indicates that it must formerly have been the channel for waters which have found some other, and probably subterraneous course.

Kidron.

1Ki 2:37; Joh 18:1

Cedron. the wilderness.

16:2; Mt 3:1,3; Lu 1:80

1 Kings 15:13

Maachah.

2,10; 2Ch 15:15,16-19

his mother.

De 13:6-11; 33:9; Zec 13:3; Mt 10:37; 12:46-50; 2Co 5:16

Ga 2:5,6,14

destroyed. Heb. cut off.

Le 26:30; De 7:5; 2Ki 18:4; 23:12-15; 2Ch 34:4

and burnt.

Ex 32:20; De 9:21; Jos 6:24

the brook.

2Sa 15:23; 2Ki 23:6; Joh 18:1

Cedron.

2 Kings 23:6

the grove.Or rather, Asherah, or Astarte.

21:7; Jud 3:7; 1Ki 14:23; 16:33; Jer 17:2

and burned.

Ex 32:20; De 7:25; 9:21

the graves.

10:27; 2Ch 34:4

the children.Probably the common people.

2 Chronicles 29:16

the priests.The priests and Levites cleansed first the courts both of the priests and of the people. On this labour they spent eight days. Then they cleansed the interior of the temple; but, as the Levites had no right to enter the temple, the priests carried all the dirt and rubbish to the porch, whence they were collected by the Levites, carried away, and cast into the brook Kidron: in this work, eight more days were occupied; and thus the temple was purified in sixteen days.

the inner part.

3:8; 5:7; Ex 26:33,34; 1Ki 6:19,20; Heb 9:2-8,23,24

all the uncleanness.

Eze 36:29; Mt 21:12,13; 23:27

Kidron.

15:16; 2Ki 23:4-6; Joh 18:1

Cedron.