Judea, central hill country · Today: Jerusalem
Jerusalem in the Bible
Also called Zion
Jerusalem enters the story as a Jebusite stronghold David captures and makes his capital, and it never leaves it. Temple, monarchy, siege, exile, return, and the death and resurrection of Jesus all happen here, and Revelation closes with a new Jerusalem coming down.
Archaeology
The Broad Wall from Hezekiah's day, the Siloam tunnel and its inscription, the stepped stone structure in the City of David, and the Herodian street and ritual baths below the Temple Mount are all visible today. The Pilate inscription from Caesarea and the Caiaphas ossuary anchor the Gospel accounts to named officials.
Verses mentioning Jerusalem
820 occurrences across 767 verses in the King James Version.
- Psalms 79:3
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
Read in context - Psalms 102:21
To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
Read in context - Psalms 116:19
In the courts of the LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Read in context - Psalms 122:2
Our feet shall stand within thy gates, O Jerusalem.
Read in context - Psalms 122:3
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:
Read in context - Psalms 122:6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.
Read in context - Psalms 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Read in context - Psalms 128:5
The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
Read in context - Psalms 135:21
Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, which dwelleth at Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
Read in context - Psalms 137:5
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.
Read in context - Psalms 137:6
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. my chief: Heb. the head of my joy
Read in context - Psalms 137:7
Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. Rase it: Heb. Make bare
Read in context - Psalms 147:2
The LORD doth build up Jerusalem: he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel.
Read in context - Psalms 147:12
Praise the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise thy God, O Zion.
Read in context - Ecclesiastes 1:1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
Read in context - Ecclesiastes 1:12
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Read in context - Ecclesiastes 1:16
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. had: Heb. had seen much
Read in context - Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: servants born: Heb. sons of my house
Read in context - Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
Read in context - Song of Solomon 1:5
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Read in context - Song of Solomon 2:7
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. I charge: Heb. I adjure you
Read in context - Song of Solomon 3:5
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.
Read in context - Song of Solomon 3:10
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.
Read in context - Song of Solomon 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love. that ye: Heb. what, etc
Read in context - Song of Solomon 5:16
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. mouth: Heb. palate
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