Atlas Biblica

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    Kidron

    קִדְרוֹןκέδρος

    The Kidron Valley, also known as the Valley of Jehoshaphat, is located east of Jerusalem and was the site of several significant events in the Bible.

    Where the story of Kidron happens Where the gazetteer locates Kidron, framed to them: Kidron. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Kidron
    Where the gazetteer locates Kidron
    verses
    13
    first named
    2 Samuel 15:23
    last named
    John 18:1
    feature
    river
    coordinates
    31.78°N · 35.24°E
    river31.78°N · 35.24°E

    Kidron River (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Kidron in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    The Kidron Valley, also referred to as the Valley of Jehoshaphat, is a deep ravine located east of Jerusalem, separating the city from the Mount of Olives. The valley is mentioned several times in the Bible as the location of important events. King David crossed the Kidron Valley when fleeing from his son Absalom (2Sa.15.23). King Asa burned the idol of his mother, Maacah, in the Kidron Valley (1Ki.15.13; 2Ch.15.16). During the religious reforms of King Josiah, the objects used for idol worship were burned and their ashes thrown into the Kidron Valley (2Ki.23.4, 6, 12). The valley is also associated with the prophetic visions of Joel, who referred to it as the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where God would gather the nations for judgment (Jol.3.2, 12). In the New Testament, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples to enter the Garden of Gethsemane on the night of his betrayal (Jhn.18.1). The Kidron Valley has been used as a burial place for thousands of years, and it holds great significance for Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Kidron is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 13 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS2 SAMUEL–2 KINGS6 VERSESJOEL2 VERSES9 books and 342 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 13 verses across 7 of 66 books; 59 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS2 SAMUEL–2 KINGS6 VERSESJOEL2 VERSES9 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Kidron is named in 13 verses, and the name is written 14 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 59 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 13, across 7 books. The name is written 14 times in them.

    1. 2 Samuel1 verse

      15:23

    2. 1 Kings2 verses

      2:3715:13

    3. 2 Kings3 verses

      23:423:623:12

    4. 2 Chronicles3 verses

      15:1629:1630:14

    5. Jeremiah1 verse

      31:40

    6. Joel2 verses

      3:23:12

    7. John1 verse

      18:1

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    Sources

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