Bible Location

brook Kidron

2 cross references · Modern-day map available

The Brook Kidron is the stream-bed and ravine east of Jerusalem running below the temple and city walls. It is important because it appears in acts of cleansing and in Jesus' final movement into Gethsemane. First appears in 2 Chr 30:14.1

Coordinates

31.77, 35.24

First appears

2 Chr 30:14

AI summary: Kidron matters because it repeatedly carries the city's impurities away and forms a threshold east of Jerusalem. Chronicles places it in temple reform, while John's Gospel turns it into the crossing point into the passion-night garden. The cross references present the Brook Kidron as a ravine of cleansing, departure, and solemn transition.1

Latitude

31.77

Longitude

35.24

Bible references

2