Kidron Valley

The tomb of Absalom in the Kidron Valley

The Kidron Valley as seen from the Lion Gate

The Kidron Valley ( Hebrew נַ֣חַל קִדְרֹ֔ון Naḥal Qidron ; Arabic وادي الجوز Wadi al-Jschauz or Wadi el-Joz ),also called Tal Joschafat or Josaphat in the section between the Temple Mount and the Mount of Olives , is a small valley that separates the Temple Mount and the Old City of Jerusalem in the west and the Mount of Olives in the east and forms an arc runs through the Judah desert to the Dead Sea . The Wadi Kidron is now partly underground.

Significant sites in and around the Kidron Valley, the Church of All Nations in the Garden of Gethsemane , the great Jewish cemetery , Absalom grave which falsely David 's son Absalom is attributed, as well as the grave of Bnei Hezir , of Zacharias and Marie grave .

In 1932 Eleazar Sukenik discovered an Aramaic inscription in a grave in the Kidron Valley, which uses the word Kokh .

In its further course the river is heavily polluted by sewage and garbage and only reaches the Dead Sea as a foul-smelling sewer.

The last waterfall of the Kidron River before the Dead Sea

See also

• Gehinnom , Gethsemane
• Lion gate

literature

• Georg Beer : Kedron 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume XI, 1, Stuttgart 1921, Col. 112-114.

Web links

Commons : Kidron Valley  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kidron - Bible Dictionary

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jerusalem - Kidrontal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ The Kidron Creek Rehabilitation ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 31 ° 46 ′ 37 "  N , 35 ° 14 ′ 20.2"  E