Mount Zion
Mount Zion is a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City to the south. The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:5; 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2) and later for the Temple Mount, but its meaning has shifted and it is now used as the name of ancient Jerusalem's Western Hill. In a wider sense, the term Zion is also used for the entire Land of Israel.
Quotes about
[edit]- “For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near;
- As you have done, it shall be done to you;
- Your reprisal shall return upon your own head.
- For as you drank on My holy mountain,
- So shall all the nations drink continually;
- Yes, they shall drink, and swallow,
- And they shall be as though they had never been.
- “But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance,
- And there shall be holiness;
- The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
- The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
- And the house of Joseph a flame;
- But the house of Esau shall be stubble;
- They shall kindle them and devour them,
- And no survivor shall remain of the house of Esau,”
- For the Lord has spoken.
- Book of Obadiah 15-18 NKJV.
- Those who trust in the Lord
- Are like Mount Zion,
- Which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
- Book of Psalms 125:1 NKJV.
- Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
- God will shine forth.
- Psalms 150:2 NKJV.
- Beautiful in elevation,
- The joy of the whole earth,
- Is Mount Zion on the sides of the north,
- The city of the great King.
- God is in her palaces;
- He is known as her refuge.
- Psalms 48:2-3 NKJV.
- Why do you fume with envy, you mountains of many peaks?
- This is the mountain which God desires to dwell in;
- Yes, the Lord will dwell in it forever.
- Psalms 68:16 NKJV.
- Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).
- 2 Samuel 5:7 NKJV.
- But the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You shall not come in here!” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion (that is, the City of David).
- 1 Chronicles 11:5 NKJV.
- Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion.
- 1 Kings 8:1 NKJV.
- Now Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, the chief fathers of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord from the City of David, which is Zion.
- 2 Chronicles 5:2 NKJV.
