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Rock-Cut Burial Cave (Kidron Valley, Jerusalem)

Rock-Cut Burial Cave ( Kidron Valley , Jerusalem ) (Interactive 3D Rock-Hewn Tomb • Matthew 27:60 & John 19:41 ): Photogrammetry scan of a rock-hewn Jerusalem burial cave in the Kidron Valley carved directly into the natural limestone bedrock with a low rectangular entrance and interior burial benches—illustrating the architecture of Judean rock-cut family tombs from Isaiah 22:16 to the Gospel accounts of the burial and resurrection of Jesus ( Matthew 27:60 ; John 19:41 ). It is closely linked with Ancient Hebrew Tomb Inscription (Kidron Valley) (Interactive 3D Epigraphic Scan • Isaiah 22:15–16 ): Monumental Hebrew inscription carved into the limestone cliffside tombs along the eastern slope of the Kidron Valley opposite the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, echoing Isaiah 's oracle concerning royal stewards hewing rock-cut sepulchres on high ( Isaiah 22:15–16 ).

Biblical Geography & Sacred Architecture

Key geographical locations connected to this topic include Kidron Valley (Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 30:14 , John 18:1 (identified with Kidron ).) Valley Gate (Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 26:9 , Neh 2:13 , Neh 2:15 , Neh 3:13 (identified with Jerusalem ).) Valley of Shaveh (Ancient biblical location referenced in Gen 14:17 (identified with Jerusalem ).) King's Valley (Ancient biblical location referenced in Gen 14:17 , 2 Sam 18:18 (identified with Jerusalem).) 3D Sanctuary Reconstructions: Rock-Cut Burial Cave ( Kidron Valley , Jerusalem) — Photogrammetry scan of a rock-hewn Jerusalem burial cave in the Kidron Valley carved directly into the natural limestone bedrock with a low rectangular entrance and interior burial benches—illustrating the architecture of Judean rock-cut family tombs from Isaiah 22:16 to the Gospel accounts of the burial and resurrection of Jesus ( Matthew 27:60 ; John 19:41 ). Ancient Hebrew Tomb Inscription (Kidron Valley) — Monumental Hebrew inscription carved into the limestone cliffside tombs along the eastern slope of the Kidron Valley opposite the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, echoing Isaiah 's oracle concerning royal stewards hewing rock-cut sepulchres on high ( Isaiah 22:15–16 ).

Scripture Witness (KJV) & Canonical Context

Primary KJV scripture witnesses include Job 30:6 : "To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks."; 1 Chronicles 11:15 : "Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David , into the cave of Adullam ; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim ."; Jeremiah 22:19 : "He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .". Related canonical books and chapters: Isaiah 22 ( Isaiah • Chapter 22 (25 verses)), 2 Kings 23 ( 2 Kings • Chapter 23 (37 verses)), Jeremiah 19 ( Jeremiah • Chapter 19 (15 verses)).

Connected Topics & Entities Book/Chapter Verse Person Place Lexicon Theology Commentary

Topics, People & Places (36)

Interactive 3D Rock-Hewn Tomb • Matthew 27:60 & John 19:41

Photogrammetry scan of a rock-hewn Jerusalem burial cave in the Kidron Valley carved directly into the natural limestone bedrock with a low rectangular entrance and interior burial benches—illustrating the architecture of Judean rock-cut family tombs from Isaiah 22:16 to the Gospel accounts of the burial and resurrection of Jesus ( Matthew 27:60 ; John 19:41 ).

Interactive 3D Epigraphic Scan • Isaiah 22:15–16

Monumental Hebrew inscription carved into the limestone cliffside tombs along the eastern slope of the Kidron Valley opposite the Temple Mount in Jerusalem , echoing Isaiah 's oracle concerning royal stewards hewing rock-cut sepulchres on high ( Isaiah 22:15–16 ).

Kidron Valley
99% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Kidron • 31.772°N, 35.237°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 30:14 , John 18:1 (identified with Kidron ).

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VIDEO • educational

Cinematic survey of the Old City of Jerusalem , showing the Temple Mount, Western Wall, Mount of Olives , and Kidron Valley .

Historical Cartography Society • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0
Interactive 3D Museum Scale Model • 2 Samuel 5 & 1 Kings 6–9

Topographical scale model of royal Jerusalem during the First Temple period (Iron Age II) from the Bible Lands Museum Jerusalem , illustrating the City of David spur, the Ophel , the Kidron and Tyropoeon valleys, and Solomon's Temple complex crowning Mount Moriah .

Valley Gate
99% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 26:9 , Neh 2:13 , Neh 2:15 , Neh 3:13 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Valley of Shaveh
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Gen 14:17 (identified with Jerusalem ).

King's Valley
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Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Gen 14:17 , 2 Sam 18:18 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Interactive 3D Priestly Blessing Amulet • Numbers 6:24–26

Tiny rolled silver amulet excavated by Gabriel Barkay in 1979 in a late First Temple burial cave overlooking the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem . Etched in Paleo-Hebrew script, it preserves the oldest known surviving text from the Hebrew Bible: the Aaronic Priestly Blessing of Numbers 6:24–26 .

Isaiah 22
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Isaiah • Chapter 22 (25 verses)

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound... Mentions: Elam , Judah , David , Jehoiakim (or Eliakim ), Hilkiah , Kir , Jerusalem .

Valley of Jehoshaphat
99% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Kidron • 31.772°N, 35.237°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Joel 3:2 , Joel 3:12 (identified with Kidron ).

Hezekiah's Tunnel Water Conduit Through Mount Zion Bedrock
IMAGE • geography

8th-century BCE subterranean aqueduct carved 533 meters through limestone bedrock to redirect Gihon Spring water to the Pool of Siloam .

Wikimedia Commons contributor • Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
2 Kings 23
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2 Kings • Chapter 23 (37 verses)

And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem . And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and g... Mentions: Judah, Hilkiah , Baal , Joshua , Nathan , Jerusalem, Kidron , Geba 1 , Topheth .

Jerusalem
99% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 10:1 , Josh 10:3 , Josh 10:5 , Josh 10:23 , Josh 12:10 , Josh 15:8 .

Ketef Hinnom Silver Scroll (KH2) — Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6:24–26)
IMAGE • archaeology

Seventh-century BCE rolled silver amulet discovered in a burial cave overlooking the Valley of Hinnom , preserving the earliest known citation of biblical scripture.

Judahite Silversmith • Israel Museum, Jerusalem / Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0
γέεννα
geenna (géenna) [gheh'-en-nah]
G1067 Greek noun feminine 12x
Gehenna

Primary meaning: Gehenna. Strong's: valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment. Lexical nuances: Gehenna , a valley W. and S. of Jerusalem, which as the site of fire-worship from the time of Ahaz, was desecrated by Josiah and became a dumping-place for the offal of the city. Later, the name was used as a symbol of the place of future punishment, as in NT: Mt 5:29 , 30 10:28 , Mk 9:43 , 45 , 47 , Lk 12:5 , Ja 3:6 ; γ. τ. πυρός , Mt 5:22 18:19 , prob. with ref. to fires of Moloch ( DB , ii, ...

Derivation: of Hebrew origin (H01516 and H02011);
Caiaphas Ossuary — Burial Box of High Priest Joseph Caiaphas
IMAGE • archaeology

Intricately carved limestone ossuary excavated in the Peace Forest south of Jerusalem , inscribed ' Joseph , son of Caiaphas' (Yehosef bar Qayafa).

Second Temple Jewish Stone Carvers • Israel Museum, Jerusalem (IAA 1990-487) / Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 3.0
Valley of Salt
89% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.087°N, 35.384°E

from nbd. Referenced in 2 Sam 8:13 , 2 Kgs 14:7 , 1 Chr 18:12 , 2 Chr 25:11 , Ps 60:1 .

Jeremiah 19
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Jeremiah • Chapter 19 (15 verses)

Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests; And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee, A... Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Baal , Jerusalem , Topheth .

Silwan Tomb Inscription — 'Over the Royal Household'
IMAGE • archaeology

Rock-cut tomb inscription in the Kidron Valley attributed to Shebna, the royal steward rebuked by Isaiah ( Isaiah 22:15 ).

Ancient Near Eastern Scribes and Stonemasons • The British Museum / Israel Antiquities Authority CC-BY-SA 4.0
Valley of Slaughter
83% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Valley of Hinnom • 31.769°N, 35.228°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Jer 7:32 , Jer 19:6 (identified with Valley of Hinnom ).

Isaiah 28
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Isaiah • Chapter 28 (29 verses)

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim , whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a f... Mentions: Ephraim , Jerusalem , Zion , Gibeon .

Valley of Beracah
79% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.611°N, 35.166°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 20:26 .

Valley of Baca
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Biblical Place • Valley of Hinnom • 31.769°N, 35.228°E

?. Referenced in Ps 84:6 .

Kidron
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Biblical Place • 31.772°N, 35.237°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Sam 15:23 , 1 Kgs 2:37 , 1 Kgs 15:13 , 2 Kgs 23:4 , 2 Kgs 23:6 , 2 Kgs 23:12 .

Valley of Rephaim
76% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.756°N, 35.223°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 15:8 , Josh 18:16 , 2 Sam 5:18 , 2 Sam 5:22 , 2 Sam 23:13 , 1 Chr 11:15 .

Jerusalem's
76% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Isa 62:1 (identified with Jerusalem ).

Valley of Zephathah
76% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.615°N, 34.910°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in 2 Chr 14:10 .

Valley of Aven
75% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 34.007°N, 36.204°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Amos 1:5 .

Valley of Sorek
74% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 31.826°N, 34.989°E

now Wadi es-Sarar. Referenced in Judg 16:4 .

Valley of Lebanon
73% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • Mount Hermon • 33.416°N, 35.857°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 11:17 , Josh 12:7 (identified with Mount Hermon ).

Tel Dan Stele — 'House of David' (Bytdwd) Inscription
IMAGE • archaeology

Ninth-century BCE basalt stele fragment discovered in northern Israel preserving the earliest extra-biblical reference to King David 's dynasty (' House of David ').

Aram-Damascus Stonecutters • Israel Museum, Jerusalem / Wikimedia Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0
Matthew 27
Connected via Rock-Cut Burial Cave (Kidron Valley, Jerusalem) 73% Chapter
Matthew • Chapter 27 (66 verses)

When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death: And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor. Then Judas , which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Judas , Jacob/Israel , Simon , Eli , Cyrene , Golgotha , Galilee .

John 19
Connected via Rock-Cut Burial Cave (Kidron Valley, Jerusalem) 72% Chapter
John • Chapter 19 (42 verses)

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus , and scourged him. And the soldiers platted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, and they put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, King of the Jews! and they smote him with their hands. Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah , Mary , Joseph , Gabbatha , Golgotha .

Valley of Mizpeh
72% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 33.282°N, 35.573°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Josh 11:8 .

Jordan Valley
71% Mapped Place
Biblical Place • 32.309°N, 35.560°E

Ancient biblical location referenced in Gen 13:10 , Gen 13:11 .

Scripture Passages (24)

To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David , into the cave of Adullam ; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim .

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem .

And 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.

And they arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem , and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them into the brook Kidron .

Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam : and the troop of the Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim .

He cutteth out rivers among the rocks; and his eye seeth every precious thing.

Baldness is come upon Gaza ; Ashkelon is cut off with the remnant of their valley: how long wilt thou cut thyself?

And 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 .

And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron , unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.

Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the Lord; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem , the king of Hebron , the king of Jarmuth , the king of Lachish , and the king of Eglon .

In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem , as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo .

And build an altar unto the Lord thy God upon the top of this rock, in the ordered place, and take the second bullock, and offer a burnt sacrifice with the wood of the grove which thou shalt cut down.

And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite ; the same is Jerusalem : and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:

Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

And devout men carried Stephen to his burial, and made great lamentation over him.

And 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 Beth–el.

For in that she hath poured this ointment on my body, she did it for my burial.

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