Mount Zion
zi'-on (tsiyon; Sion):
1. Meaning of the Word
2. The Zion of the Jebusites
3. Zion of the Prophets
4. Zion in Later Poetical Writings and Apocrypha
5. Omission of Name by Some Writers
6. The Name "Zion" in Christian Times
LITERATURE
1. Meaning of the Word:
A name applied to Jerusalem, or to certain parts of it, at
least since the time of David. N...
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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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It shall even be as when an hungry [man] dreameth, and,
behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or
as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but
he awaketh, and, behold, [he is] faint, and his soul hath
appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that
fight against mount Zion....
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In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of
hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people
terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and
trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the
place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion....
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Remember thy congregation, [which] thou hast purchased of old;
the rod of thine inheritance, [which] thou hast redeemed; this
mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt....
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For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of
shepherds is called forth against him, [he] will not be afraid
of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so
shall the LORD of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and
for the hill thereof....
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