(Valley of) Jehoshaphat
יְהוֹשָׁפָטStrong’s H6939yehoshaphat (ye-ho-sha-phat)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yehoshaphat is the Hebrew word usually translated “kidron”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And all the country wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself passed over the brook Kidron, and all the people passed over, toward the way of the wilderness.”
Meaning
- Jehoshaphat = "Jehovah has judged"
How it's translated
- kidron 11
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Kings 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- 1 Kings 2
- 2 Samuel 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 2:37For it shall be, that on the day thou goest out, and passest over the brook Kidron, thou shalt know for certain that thou shalt surely die: thy blood shall be upon thine own head.
- 1 Kings 15:13And 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.
- 2 Kings 23:4And 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 Bethel.
- 2 Kings 23:6And 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.
- 2 Kings 23:12And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of the LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
- 2 Chronicles 15:16And also concerning Maachah the mother of Asa the king, he removed her from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove: and Asa cut down her idol, and stamped it, and burnt it at the brook Kidron.
Hebrew dictionary
יְהוֹשָׁפָט yehoshaphat · (Valley of) Jehoshaphat
Jehoshaphat = "Jehovah has judged" son of king Asa and himself king of Judah for 25 years; one of the best, most pious, and prosperous kings of Judah, symbolical name of a valley near Jerusalem which is the place of ultimate judgment; maybe the deep ravine which separates Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives through which the Kidron flowed Combined with qid.ron (קִדְרוֹן "Kidron" H6939)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.