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Kidron
[ kee-druhn, kid-ruhn ]
noun
- a ravine E of Jerusalem, leading to the Mount of Olives: traditionally identified by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religions as the Valley of Decision, the place of final judgment. Joel 3:2, 12.
Kidron
/ ˈkiːdrən /
Example Sentences
The Kidron Valley wends its way from the eastern side of the Old City, through the Judean Desert, to the Dead Sea.
Most, if not all, of the Kidron Valley is located in territory that Israel occupied in 1967.
Meanwhile, the sewage continues to flow in the Kidron Valley, and the settlements continue to expand.
The cicadas are calling; the Brook of Kidron babbles on monotonously; the doleful chant of a night watchman is heard in the city.
There is the Kidron brook, the gentle rise of ground, the grove of gnarled knotty old olive trees.
Meantime a girl with her little brother—goat-herds both—have been watering their flock at Kidron, and are driving it home.
The southern end rises rapidly from the valley below where the Tyropœon and Kidron join.
It is entered by steps which lead into a natural cave, half way down the side of the Kidron Valley.
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