Jeremiah 31:40

New Century Version

The whole valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far as the corner of the Horse Gate—all that area will be holy to the Lord. The city of Jerusalem will never again be torn down or destroyed.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:23

All the people cried loudly as everyone passed by. King David crossed the Kidron Valley, and then all the people went on to the desert.

2 Kings 11:16

So they caught her when she came to the horses’ entrance near the palace. There she was put to death.

2 Kings 23:12

The kings of Judah had built altars on the roof of the upstairs room of Ahaz. Josiah broke down these altars and the altars Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the Temple of the Lord. Josiah smashed them to pieces and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:6

He removed the Asherah idol from the Temple of the Lord and took it outside Jerusalem to the Kidron Valley, where he burned it and beat it into dust. Then he threw the dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Chronicles 23:15

So they caught her when she came to the entrance of the Horse Gate near the palace. There they put her to death.

Nehemiah 3:28

The priests made repairs above the Horse Gate, each working in front of his own house.

Psalm 48:9

God, we come into your Temple to think about your love.

Isaiah 51:22

Your God will defend his people. This is what the Lord your God says: “The punishment I gave you is like a cup of wine. You drank it and could not walk straight. But I am taking that cup of my anger away from you, and you will never be punished by my anger again.

Jeremiah 1:10

Today I have put you in charge of nations and kingdoms. You will pull up and tear down, destroy and overthrow, build up and plant.”

Jeremiah 18:7

There may come a time when I will speak about a nation or a kingdom that I will pull up by its roots or that I will pull down to destroy it.

Jeremiah 32:36

“You are saying, ‘Because of war, hunger, and terrible diseases, the city will be handed over to the king of Babylon.’ But the Lord, the God of Israel, says about Jerusalem:

Jeremiah 8:2

The bones will be spread on the ground under the sun, moon, and stars that the people loved and served and went after and searched for and worshiped. No one will gather up the bones and bury them. So they will be like dung thrown on the ground.

Ezekiel 37:2

He led me around among the bones, and I saw that there were many bones in the valley and that they were very dry.

Ezekiel 37:25

They will live on the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land in which your ancestors lived. They will all live on the land forever: they, their children, and their grandchildren. David my servant will be their king forever.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will not turn away from them anymore, because I will put my Spirit into the people of Israel, says the Lord God.”

Ezekiel 48:35

“The city will measure about six miles around. From then on the name of the city will be The Lord Is There.”

Joel 3:17

“Then you will know that I, the Lord your God, live on my holy Mount Zion. Jerusalem will be a holy place, and strangers will never even go through it again.

Zechariah 14:11

People will live there, and it will never be destroyed again. Jerusalem will be safe.

Zechariah 14:20

At that time the horses’ bells will have written on them: holy to the lord. The cooking pots in the Temple of the Lord will be like the holy altar bowls.

John 18:1

When Jesus finished praying, he went with his followers across the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and Jesus and his followers went into it.