City of David
zi'-on (tsiyon; Sion):LITERATURE
1. Meaning of the Word:
A name applied to Jerusalem, or to certain parts of it, at
least since the time of David. Nothing certain is known of
the meaning. Gesenius and others have derived it from a
Hebrew root tsahah, "to be dry"; Delitzsch from tsiwwah, "to
set up" and Wetzstein from tsin, "to protect." Geseniu...
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(A stronghold of Jerusalem)
-Also called SION
-Captured from the Jebusites by David
2Sa 5:6-9; 1Ch 11:5-7
-Called thereafter "the city of David,"
2Sa 5:7,9; 6:12,16; 1Ki 8:1; 1Ch 11:5,7; 15:1,29;
2Ch 5:2
-The ark of the covenant
Placed in
2Sa 6:12,16; 1Ki 8:1; 1Ch 15:1,29; 2Ch 5:2
Removed from, to Solomon's temple on Mount Moriah
1Ki 8:1...
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sunny; height, one of the eminences on which Jerusalem was
built. It was surrounded on all sides, except the
north, by deep
valleys, that of the Tyropoeon (q.v.) separating it
from Moriah
(q.v.), which it surpasses in height by 105 feet. It
was the
south-eastern hill of Jerusalem.
When David took it from the Jebusites (Josh. 15:63;
2 Sam.
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(See JERUSALEM.) Lieut. Conder (Israel Exploration
Quarterly Statement, Oct. 1877, p. 178) takes Zion for a
district name, like "Mount Ephraim." It means sunny
mountain. Hezekiah brought his aqueduct (2 Chronicles 22:30;
2 Chronicles 33:14) from Gihon, the Virgin's fountain, to
the western side of the city of David (which is thus Ophel).
Zion...
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But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of
Colhozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and
covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof,
and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by
the king's garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the
city of David....
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And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took
Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David,
until he had made an end of building his own house, and the
house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about....
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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of
Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring
up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of
David, which [is] Zion....
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And when they were departed from him, (for they left him in
great diseases,) his own servants conspired against him for
the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on
his bed, and he died: and they buried him in the city of
David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings....
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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads
of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of
Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of
the LORD out of the city of David, which [is] Zion....
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