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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).
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.”
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.
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
What Moses did by grinding the gods into dust
King Asa
did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord
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
King Hezekiah
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.
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!
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