Jeremiah 31:40

New International Reader's Version

There is a valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown. That whole valley will be holy to me. The side of the Kidron Valley east of the city will be holy to me. It will be holy all the way to the corner of the Horse Gate. The city will never again be pulled up by the roots. It will never be destroyed.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 15:23

All the people in the countryside wept out loud as David and all his followers passed by. The king went across the Kidron Valley. He and all the people with him moved on toward the desert.

2 Kings 11:16

So they grabbed her as she reached the place where the horses enter the palace grounds. There she was put to death.

2 Kings 23:12

He pulled down the altars the kings of Judah had set up. They had put them on the palace roof near the upstairs room of Ahaz. Josiah also pulled down the altars Manasseh had built. They were in the two courtyards of the Lord’s temple. Josiah removed the altars from there. He smashed them to pieces. Then he threw the broken pieces into the Kidron Valley.

2 Kings 23:6

Josiah removed the Asherah pole from the Lord’s temple. It had been used to worship the female god named Asherah. He took it to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. There he burned it. He ground it into powder. And he scattered it over the graves of the ordinary people.

2 Chronicles 23:15

So they grabbed her as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate on the palace grounds. There they put her to death.

Nehemiah 3:28

The priests made repairs above the Horse Gate. Each priest repaired the part of the wall that was in front of his own house.

Psalm 48:9

God, inside your temple we think about your faithful love.

Isaiah 51:22

Your Lord and King speaks. He is your God. He stands up for his people. He says, “I have taken from you the cup of my great anger. It made you unsteady on your feet. But you will never drink from that cup again.

Jeremiah 1:10

Today I am appointing you to speak to nations and kingdoms. I give you authority to pull them up by the roots and tear them down. I give you authority to destroy them and crush them. I give you authority to build them up and plant them.”

Jeremiah 18:7

Suppose I announce that something will happen to a nation or kingdom. Suppose I announce that it will be pulled up by the roots. And I announce that it will be torn down and destroyed.

Jeremiah 32:36

Here is what you people of Judah are saying about this city. “By war, hunger and plague it will be handed over to the king of Babylon.” But here is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will lie outside under the sun, moon and all the stars. All these people had loved and served these things. They had followed them and worshiped them. They had asked them for advice. So the bones of these people will not be gathered up or buried again. Instead, they will be like human waste lying there on the ground.

Ezekiel 37:2

He led me back and forth among them. I saw a huge number of bones in the valley. The bones were very dry.

Ezekiel 37:25

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob. That is where your people of long ago lived. They, their children, their children’s children, and their children after them will live there forever. And my servant from David’s family line will be their prince forever.

Ezekiel 39:29

I will no longer turn my face away from the people of Israel. I will pour out my Spirit on them,” announces the Lord and King.

Ezekiel 48:35

“The city will be six miles around. “From that time on, its name will be ‘The Lord Is There.’ ”

Joel 3:17

The Lord says, “You will know that I am the Lord your God. I live in Zion. It is my holy mountain. Jerusalem will be my holy city. People from other lands will never again attack it.

Zechariah 14:11

People will live in it. Jerusalem will never be destroyed again. It will be secure.

Zechariah 14:20

On that day “Holy to the Lord” will be carved on the bells of the horses. The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple will be just like the sacred bowls in front of the altar for burnt offerings.

John 18:1

When Jesus had finished praying, he left with his disciples. They crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden. Jesus and his disciples went into it.