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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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37 Now it will be on the day you go out and (A)cross over the [a]brook Kidron, that you will know for certain that you shall surely die; (B)your blood shall be on your own head.”

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  1. 1 Kings 2:37 Or wadi

13 [a](A)He also removed Maacah his mother from being queen mother, because she had made a horrid image [b]for Asherah; and Asa cut down her horrid image and (B)burned it at the brook Kidron.

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  1. 1 Kings 15:13 Lit Also Maacah his mother and he removed her
  2. 1 Kings 15:13 Or as an Asherah

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 Yahweh 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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  1. 2 Kings 23:4 Lit keepers of the threshold
  2. 2 Kings 23:4 A wooden symbol of a female deity, so in ch

And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Yahweh 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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  1. 2 Kings 23:6 Lit sons of the people

12 (A)Also, 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 Yahweh, the king tore down; and he [a]crushed them there and (C)threw their dust into the brook Kidron.

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  1. 2 Kings 23:12 Or ran from there

16 (A)He also removed Maacah, the mother of King Asa, from being 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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  1. 2 Chronicles 15:16 Or for Asherah

16 So the priests went in to the inner part of the house of Yahweh to cleanse it, and every unclean thing which they found in the temple of Yahweh they brought out to the court of the house of Yahweh. Then the Levites received it to bring out to (A)the Kidron [a]valley, to an outer area.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 29:16 Or wadi

14 And they arose and took away the altars which were in Jerusalem; they also (A)took away all the incense altars and (B)cast them into the brook Kidron.

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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 Yahweh; it will not be uprooted or pulled down anymore forever.”

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