Through The Valley
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The Kidron valley is the likely location of the Karaite quarter in Jerusalem around AD 1000 (Moshe, “Jewish Quarters,” 278). Moshe suggests that the valley of Kidron was the likely location of the Bāb al-Wādī gate (Moshe, “Jewish Quarters,” 268n30).“Kidron is the place name for the wadi—or valley—that runs along the east side of Jerusalem and eventually empties into the Dead Sea” (Stager, “Archaeology,” 113).
13 And there came a messenger to David, saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom.
14 And David said unto all his servants that were with him at Jerusalem, Arise, and let us flee; for we shall not else escape from Absalom: make speed to depart, lest he overtake us suddenly, and bring evil upon us, and smite the city with the edge of the sword.
15 And the king’s servants said unto the king, Behold, thy servants are ready to do whatsoever my lord the king shall appoint.
16 And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.
17 And the king went forth, and all the people after him, and tarried in a place that was far off.
18 And all his servants passed on beside him; and all the Cherethites, and all the Pelethites, and all the Gittites, six hundred men which came after him from Gath, passed on before the king.
19 Then said the king to Ittai the Gittite, Wherefore goest thou also with us? return to thy place, and abide with the king: for thou art a stranger, and also an exile.
20 Whereas thou camest but yesterday, should I this day make thee go up and down with us? seeing I go whither I may, return thou, and take back thy brethren: mercy and truth be with thee.
2 Samuel 15:21 (KJV 1900)
21 And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.
Absolom had charismatic qualities
Support those that God has put in your life to lead you
“A friend loveth at all times”
Be the type of person that loves your friends
Kidron = Dusky place
The light is dimming
To mourn heavily
The brook of Kidron’s name is taken from קָדַר (qadar)—“to mourn” or “to be dark, turbid.”
Easton’s Bible Dictionary Cedron
CEDRON—the black torrent, the brook flowing through the ravine below the eastern wall of Jerusalem
Going through this time of seeming defeat
A time of sadness and brokenness
What you pass through, those who are leading you are passing through also
David was God’s afflicted one
David was conscious of ill desert; hence his resolve to flee. How different his bearing now from that great hour when Goliath fell before him! Ah, conscience doth make cowards of us all! And yet there was a beautiful spirit of resignation welling up amid the salt waves of his bitter sorrow. When we are called to pass through dark hours, we cannot do better than repeat the words of this royal penitent: “Behold, here am I; let him do to me as seemeth good to him.” What thoughtfulness of Ittai! What pathos in the king’s words to Zadok! What humility as he climbed Olivet! What trust still in God to turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness! It is an impressive picture of the resignation of a broken and a contrite heart.
They were noble words that Ittai uttered! His name associates him with David’s residence in Gath, among the Philistines. He was a stranger and an exile in Israel, but the king’s friendship had made a home for him. In these days of our Lord’s humiliation, let us address Him in the chivalrous and noble words of 2Sa 15:21.
26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall also my servant be: if any man serve me, him will my Father honour.
10 Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.
We cannot escape this life without conflict
We cannot go through this world without struggle
Idols were destroyed in the valley of Kidron
The gods of Egypt were destroyed
The Red Sea was parted
At the foot of Sinai Israel
I took your sin
16 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the Lord had commanded you.
17 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.
18 And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the Lord was wroth against you to destroy you. But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also.
20 And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
21 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount.
What Moses did by grinding the gods into dust
King Asa
did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord
11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.
12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed all the idols that his fathers had made.
13 And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.
Removed the Idols
His mom was worshipping idols
On the whole, Asa’s policy was directed to the overthrow of the heathen worship, but he seems to have shrunk from a root-and-branch extermination of the evil, 1Ki 15:14; and the result was personal deterioration and the springing up again of idolatry. Our Lord asks us never to compromise. The right hand that offends must be cut off. The brood of the viper must be stamped out to the last egg.
King Josiah
was one of the greatest kings in Israels history
3 And the king stood by a pillar, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all their heart and all their soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people stood to the covenant.
4 And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the Lord all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.
5 And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.
6 And he brought out the grove from the house of the Lord, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
King Hezekiah
16 And the priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the Lord into the court of the house of the Lord. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
Crushing idols
This represents that God wants to permanently remove idols from our life
King David crossed the brook
The OT reminds us that crushing idols is important
Today we have different idols
Gold, silver
Success, power
Reputation
Pride
Jesus gave himself to purify us
Jesus came so we could not have any idols
Kidron was a place of sadness
a place of darkness
a place of betrayal
God will humble us if we think we are more than what we are
We can become our own idol
God will crush us
The slightest whisper of the Holy Spirit should move us
Idolatrous attachments God will destroy
God destroys pride and arrogancy
Lessons of the Valley
1 John 5:21 (KJV 1900)
21 Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
16 Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
John 18:1 (KJV 1900)
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples.
New TestamentThe valley of Kidron would have been close to the garden of Gethsemane, where Jesus prayed the night before His crucifixion. The disciples and Jesus needed to cross over the ravine of the Kidron in order to get to the garden.Usage TodayThe brook of Kidron still exists near Jerusalem and is mentioned periodically throughout history.
Jesus was crushed in Kidron for our idols and sins
4. A Valley Of Victory
Kidron is not the end, it is the new beginning of leadership
Jesus will come back to rule and reign
David came back to rule
When you go to Kidron, I want to be there with you
When I go through Kidron, I want someone there with me
Jeremiah prophesies that the Lord will rebuild the city
The promise in Jeremiah 31:40 may suggest the brook of Kidron may have a role in the end times. Haupt notes, “The Jews as well as the Christians and the Mohammedans of Palestine believe that the Last Judgment will be held in the Kidron valley” (Haupt, “Hinnom and Kidron,” 46).
(Jer 31:38–40
Jeremiah 31:38–40 (KJV 1900)
38 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That the city shall be built to the Lord From the tower of Hananeel unto the gate of the corner.
39 And the measuring line shall yet go forth over against it Upon the hill Gareb, and shall compass about to Goath.
40 And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, And all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, Unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, Shall be holy unto the Lord; It shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.
Our Lord knew to what He was going. All lay naked and open before His eyes. He laid down His life of Himself; but in this supreme act of love He suffered beyond words. It was not that He feared physical pain, but it was the horror of standing before the universe identified with the sin and sorrow of the world, as though these were His own.
In these instructions to His Apostles, as to wallet, purse and sword, we must understand that He meant them to realize that the storm was about to burst upon them with furious intensity.
Some think that our Lord prayed most of all that His body should not give way under His awful anguish. He feared lest He should die before He could reach the Cross! See Heb 5:7. “Oh, my Lord, thy chosen disciples failed thee in that hour; but so have we! What can we say! Help us to share thy vigil and thy prayer!”
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.