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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.

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Verses mentioning Jerusalem

820 occurrences across 767 verses in the King James Version.

  1. Song of Solomon 6:4

    Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

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  2. Song of Solomon 8:4

    I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. that: Heb. why should ye stir up, or, why, etc

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  3. Isaiah 1:1

    The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

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  4. Isaiah 2:1

    The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

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  5. Isaiah 2:3

    And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.

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  6. Isaiah 3:1

    For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

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  7. Isaiah 3:8

    For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

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  8. Isaiah 4:3

    And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem: among: or, to life

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  9. Isaiah 4:4

    When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

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  10. Isaiah 5:3

    And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

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  11. Isaiah 7:1

    And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

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  12. Isaiah 8:14

    And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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  13. Isaiah 10:10

    As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

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  14. Isaiah 10:11

    Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

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  15. Isaiah 10:12

    Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. punish: Heb. visit upon stout: Heb. greatness of the heart

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  16. Isaiah 10:32

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

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  17. Isaiah 22:10

    And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

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  18. Isaiah 22:21

    And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

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  19. Isaiah 24:23

    Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously. before: or, there shall be glory before his ancients

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  20. Isaiah 27:13

    And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

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  21. Isaiah 28:14

    Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.

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  22. Isaiah 30:19

    For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.

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  23. Isaiah 31:5

    As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

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  24. Isaiah 31:9

    And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem. he: Heb. his rock shall pass away for fear his strong hold: or, his strength

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  25. Isaiah 33:20

    Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

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