Jeremiah 31:40

KJV1611 – Modern English

And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook of Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to the LORD; it shall not be uprooted, nor demolished anymore forever.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    The entire valley where dead bodies and ashes are thrown, and all the terraces out to the Kidron Valley to the corner of the Horse Gate on the east, will be holy to the LORD; it will never again be uprooted or demolished.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the whole valley{H6010} of the dead bodies{H6297} and of the ashes,{H1880} and all the fields{H7709} unto the brook{H5158} Kidron,{H6939} unto the corner{H6438} of the horse{H5483} gate{H8179} toward the east,{H4217} shall be holy{H6944} unto Jehovah;{H3068} it shall not be plucked up,{H5428} nor thrown down{H2040} any more for ever.{H5769}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And the whole valley{H6010} of the dead bodies{H6297}, and of the ashes{H1880}, and all the fields{H7709}{(H8675)}{H8309} unto the brook{H5158} of Kidron{H6939}, unto the corner{H6438} of the horse{H5483} gate{H8179} toward the east{H4217}, shall be holy{H6944} unto the LORD{H3068}; it shall not be plucked up{H5428}{(H8735)}, nor thrown down{H2040}{(H8735)} any more for ever{H5769}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and the whole valley of the deed carcases, and of the ashes, & all Seremoth, vnto the broke of Cedron: and from thence vnto the corner of the horsgate towarde ye east, where as the Sanctuary of the LORDE also shalbe set. And when it is now buylded, & set vp of this fashion it shall neuer be broken, ner cast downe eny more.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, & all the fields vnto the brooke of Kidron, and vnto the corner of the horsegate toward the East, shalbe holy vnto the Lorde, neither shal it be plucked vp nor destroyed any more for euer.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And the whole valley of the dead carkasses, and of the asshes, and all the fieldes, vnto the brooke of Cedron, and vnto the corner of the horse gate towarde the east, it shalbe holy vnto the Lorde, and shall neuer be broken nor cast downe any more.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And all the valley of the carcases and of the ashes, And all the fields unto the brook Kidron, Unto the corner of the horse-gate eastward, `Are' holy to Jehovah, it is not plucked up, Nor is it thrown down any more to the age!

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    And all the valley of the dead bodies, and all the field of death as far as the stream Kidron, up to the angle of the horses' doorway to the east, will be holy to the Lord; it will not again be uprooted or overturned for ever.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    The whole valley of the dead bodies and of the ashes, and all the fields to the brook Kidron, to the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy to Yahweh; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more forever.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    The whole valley where dead bodies and sacrificial ashes are thrown and all the terraced fields out to the Kidron Valley on the east as far north as the corner of the Horse Gate will be included within this city that is sacred to the LORD. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed.”

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 15:23 : 23 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.
  • Joel 3:17 : 17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and strangers shall no longer pass through her.
  • John 18:1 : 1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, which he entered with his disciples.
  • 2 Kgs 11:16 : 16 They seized her, and she went by the way of the horses' entrance to the king's house, and there she was slain.
  • 2 Chr 23:15 : 15 So they laid hands on her; and when she came to the entrance of the Horse Gate by the king's house, they slew her there.
  • Neh 3:28 : 28 From above the horse gate the priests repaired, each opposite his house.
  • 2 Kgs 23:6 : 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.
  • 2 Kgs 23:12 : 12 And the altars that were on the roof 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, the king broke down and smashed them there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron.
  • Zech 14:20 : 20 In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, 'HOLINESS TO THE LORD'; and the pots in the LORD's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.
  • Isa 51:22 : 22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people, 'Behold, I have taken from your hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall no more drink it again:
  • Jer 7:31-32 : 31 And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I did not command, nor did it enter into my heart. 32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it will no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they will bury in Tophet, till there is no place.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And they will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, whom they have served, after whom they have walked, whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered nor buried; they will be dung upon the face of the earth.
  • Jer 18:7 : 7 At any moment I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and to destroy it;
  • Jer 19:11-13 : 11 And shall say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Even so will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel, that cannot be made whole again: and they shall bury them in Tophet, until there is no place left to bury. 12 Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city like Tophet: 13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled like the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings to other gods.
  • Jer 32:36 : 36 And now therefore thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning this city, of which you say, It shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence;
  • Ezek 37:2 : 2 And caused me to pass by them all around: and behold, there were very many in the open valley; and indeed, they were very dry.
  • Ezek 37:25 : 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children forever: and my servant David shall be their prince forever.
  • Ezek 39:29 : 29 Neither will I hide my face anymore from them, for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel, says the Lord GOD.
  • Ezek 45:1-6 : 1 Moreover, when you shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, you shall offer an offering to the LORD, a holy portion of the land: the length shall be twenty-five thousand reeds in length, and ten thousand in breadth. This shall be holy within all its borders all around. 2 Of this, there shall be for the sanctuary five hundred in length, with five hundred in breadth, square all around; and fifty cubits all around for its suburbs. 3 And from this measurement, you shall measure a length of twenty-five thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary and the most holy place. 4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests, the ministers of the sanctuary, who come near to minister unto the LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and a holy place for the sanctuary. 5 And an area of twenty-five thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth, shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house, have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers. 6 And you shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand in breadth, and twenty-five thousand in length, beside the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
  • Ezek 48:35 : 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Jer 7:32-33
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    78%

    32 Therefore, behold, the days come, says the LORD, that it will no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they will bury in Tophet, till there is no place.

    33 And the carcasses of this people will be meat for the birds of the sky, and for the beasts of the earth; and none will fray them away.

  • Jer 31:38-39
    2 verses
    77%

    38 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that the city shall be built to the LORD from the tower of Hananel to the corner gate.

    39 And the measuring line shall again extend straight to the hill Gareb, and then shall turn toward Goath.

  • Jer 19:6-8
    3 verses
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    6 Therefore, behold, the days are coming, says the LORD, that this place shall no longer be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

    7 And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of those who seek their lives: and their corpses will I give to be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

    8 And I will make this city desolate, and an object of scorn; everyone who passes by it shall be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

  • 75%

    10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

    11 And men shall dwell in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction; but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited.

  • 16 And you shall gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the street thereof, and shall burn with fire the city, and all the spoil thereof every bit, for the LORD your God: and it shall be a heap forever; it shall not be built again.

  • 12 Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • 33 And at that day the slain of the LORD shall be from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered nor buried; they shall be like dung upon the ground.

  • 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives shall split in the midst toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

  • 62 Then you shall say, O LORD, you have spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate forever.

  • 26 They shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate forever, says the LORD.

  • Jer 8:1-3
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    1 At that time, says the LORD, they will bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of its princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

    2 And they will spread them before the sun, the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, whom they have served, after whom they have walked, whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped. They will not be gathered nor buried; they will be dung upon the face of the earth.

    3 And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the remnant of those that remain of this evil family, who remain in all the places where I have driven them, says the LORD of hosts.

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

  • 25 Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain forever.

  • 32 As yet he shall remain at Nob that day; he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

  • 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; its smoke shall ascend forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever.

  • 6 And he brought out the Asherah from the house of the LORD, outside Jerusalem, to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, ground it to powder, and cast its powder on the graves of the common people.

  • 20 You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, and slain your people: the seed of evildoers will never be renowned.

  • 25 And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

  • 22 Speak, Thus says the LORD, 'Even the carcasses of men shall fall as dung on the open field, and as the handful after the harvester, and no one shall gather them.'

  • Jer 9:10-11
    2 verses
    70%

    10 For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

    11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, a den of dragons; and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.

  • 3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stench shall rise from their corpses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

  • 12 Thus will I do to this place, says the LORD, and to its inhabitants, and even make this city like Tophet:

  • 10 Yet the fortified city shall be desolate, the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall it lie down and consume its branches.

  • 4 For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down by the battering rams and by the sword:

  • 11 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will give Gog a place there for graves in Israel, the valley of the travelers on the east of the sea: and it shall block the way of the travelers: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude: and they shall call it The Valley of Hamongog.

  • 27 For thus says the LORD, The whole land shall be desolate; yet I will not make a complete end.

  • 15 Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows; for the wicked shall no longer pass through you; he is utterly cut off.

  • 3 And it shall come to pass, that he who is left in Zion, and he who remains in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, everyone who is recorded among the living in Jerusalem.

  • 5 And he burned the bones of the priests upon their altars, and cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

  • 20 Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities; your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that will not be taken down; not one of its stakes will ever be removed, nor will any of its cords be broken.

  • 17 So shall you know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain. Then shall Jerusalem be holy, and strangers shall no longer pass through her.

  • 25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

  • 16 Then the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel.

  • 2 And go forth to 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 you,

  • 3 Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

  • 10 Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

  • 7 And it shall come to pass that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

  • 34 And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all who passed by.

  • 19 He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

  • 37 And the body of Jezebel shall be as dung on the face of the field in the plot of Jezreel; so that they shall not say, This is Jezebel.

  • 7 At that time shall the present be brought to the LORD of hosts from a people scattered and polished, and from a people feared from their beginning until now; a nation divided and trampled under foot, whose land the rivers have ravaged, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, Mount Zion.

  • 23 I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the LORD of hosts.