Lexicon :: Strong's G5493 - cheimarros

He took them and sent them across the stream, along with all his possessions.

“This is what you may eat from all that is in the water: You may eat everything in the water that has fins and scales, whether in the seas or streams.

“On the first day you are to take the product of majestic trees ​— ​palm fronds, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook ​— ​and rejoice before the LORD your God for seven days.

Therefore it is stated in the Book of the LORD’s Wars:

Waheb in Suphah

and the ravines of the Arnon,

“The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.

“There was no city that was inaccessible to[fn] us, from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the valley, even as far as Gilead. The LORD our God gave everything to us.

“At that time we took the land from the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, from the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Hermon,

“At that time we took possession of this land. I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Aroer by the Arnon Valley, and half the hill country of Gilead along with its cities.

“and I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites the area extending from Gilead to the Arnon Valley (the middle of the valley was the border) and up to the Jabbok River, the border of the Ammonites.

from Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley as far as Mount Sion (that is, Hermon)

“For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land with streams, springs, and deep water sources, flowing in both valleys and hills;

“I took the sinful calf you had made and burned it. I crushed it, thoroughly grinding it to powder as fine as dust, and threw its dust into the stream that came down from the mountain.

They traveled from there to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a land with flowing streams.

From Aroer on the rim of the Arnon Valley, along with the city in the middle of the valley, all the Medeba plateau as far as Dibon,

Ashdod, with its surrounding villages and settlements; Gaza, with its surrounding villages and settlements, to the Brook of Egypt and the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea.

From there the border descended to the Brook of Kanah; south of the brook, cities belonged to Ephraim among Manasseh’s cities. Manasseh’s border was on the north side of the brook and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.

“Then I will lure Sisera commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his infantry at the Wadi Kishon to fight against you, and I will hand him over to you.’ ”

Sisera summoned all his nine hundred iron chariots and all the troops who were with him from Harosheth of the Nations to the Wadi Kishon.

The river Kishon swept them away,

the ancient river, the river Kishon.

March on, my soul, in strength!

He tore them limb from limb[fn] and then went down and stayed in the cave at the rock of Etam.

Some time later, he fell in love with a woman named Delilah, who lived in the Sorek Valley.

Saul came to the city of Amalek and set up an ambush in the wadi.

Instead, he took his staff in his hand and chose five smooth stones from the wadi and put them in the pouch, in his shepherd’s bag. Then, with his sling in his hand, he approached the Philistine.

So David and the six hundred men with him went. They came to the Wadi Besor, where some stayed behind.

When David came to the two hundred men who had been too exhausted to go with him and had been left at the Wadi Besor, they came out to meet him and to meet the troops with him. When David approached the men, he greeted them,

Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly while all the people were marching out of the city. As the king was crossing the Kidron Valley, all the people were marching past on the road that leads to the wilderness.

“If he retreats to some city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag its stones[fn] into the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.”

For the waves of death engulfed me;

the torrents of destruction terrified me.

“On the day you do leave and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will certainly die. Your blood will be on your own head.”

He also removed his grandmother[fn] Maacah from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide at the Wadi Cherith where it enters the Jordan.

Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and to every wadi. Perhaps we’ll find grass so we can keep the horses and mules alive and not have to destroy any cattle.”

Then Elijah ordered them, “Seize the prophets of Baal! Do not let even one of them escape.” So they seized them, and Elijah brought them down to the Wadi Kishon and slaughtered them there.

Then he said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Dig ditch after ditch in this wadi.’

from the Jordan eastward: the whole land of Gilead ​— ​the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the Manassites ​— ​from Aroer which is by the Arnon Valley through Gilead to Bashan.[fn]

He brought out the Asherah pole from the LORD’s temple to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem. He burned it at the Kidron Valley, beat it to dust, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.[fn]

The king tore down the altars that the kings of Judah had made on the roof of Ahaz’s upper chamber. He also tore down the altars that Manasseh had made in the two courtyards of the LORD’s temple. Then he smashed them[fn] there and threw their dust into the Kidron Valley.

Now the king of Egypt did not march out of his land again, for the king of Babylon took everything that had belonged to the king of Egypt, from the Brook of Egypt to the Euphrates River.

So Solomon and all Israel with him ​— ​a very great assembly, from the entrance to Hamath[fn] to the Brook of Egypt ​— ​observed the festival at that time for seven days.

King Asa also removed Maacah, his grandmother,[fn] from being queen mother because she had made an obscene image of Asherah. Asa chopped down her obscene image, then crushed it and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

The priests went to the entrance of the LORD’s temple to cleanse it. They took all the unclean things they found in the LORD’s sanctuary to the courtyard of the LORD’s temple. Then the Levites received them and took them outside to the Kidron Valley.