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3. When the good Kings, Hezekiah, and Asa, and Josiah purged the City and the Temple of Idolatry, they burnt the cursed things at the Brook Kidron, and cast them therein. And Asa cut down the Idol, ¹and he brought out the Grove from the House of the Lord without Jerusalem unto the Brook Kidron, and burnt it at the Brook Kidron;—and the Priests went into the inner part of the house of the Lord, to cleanse it, and brought all the uncleanness that they found in the Temple of the Lord, into the Court of the house of the Lord; and the Levites took it to carry it out abroad into the Brook Kidron.—and they arose and took away the Altars that were in Jerusalem, and all the Altars for Incense took they away, ²and cast them into the Brook Kidron, or Cedron. All these note unto us, that the Brook was as it were the sink of the Temple, into which all the purgamenta, and uncleannesses of Gods house, and all the accursed things were to be cast: and here again was a type of Christ; upon him was cast all the filths of our sins, that as a River or Fountain he might cleanse us from them; in this respect he is said to be made sin for us who knew no sin, ³that we might be made the righteousness of God in him: he was made sin for us, and a curse for us, that so he might swallow up Sin and Death, and might be destruction of Hell, and all.

1. 12 King, 23.6. 2 Chr. 29.16.
2. 22 Chr. 20.14.
3. 32 Cor. 5.21.