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Place · Mountain

Zion

Named in 140 verses across 19 books, first in Joel 2:1.

The dataset treats this record as another name for, or a duplicate of, Mount Zion.

Where

Coordinates

31.7767° N, 35.2342° EOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗

Identification

Well established

The point marks the identified site.

Matched to an entry in an ancient-world gazetteer, and the match was checked by the dataset’s editors. Gazetteer entry

Some biblical sites are known for certain; others are identified from old names and descriptions and are still discussed.

Dataset notes

Same as Jerusalem
Same as Jerusalem.
Per comment on Mount Zion- it does not encompass the entirety of Jerusalem as a whole. Thus, it may not be appropiate to consider it exactly synonmous with Jerusalem (since there's also Mt Moriah). Almost always a reference to Jerusalem itself, however not the actual mountain

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People

Born, died or recorded here, or in an event set here, first; then people named in the same verses, which does not mean they were here.

God77 shared verses
Jacob (Israel)11 shared verses
David4 shared verses
Solomon3 shared verses
Ephraim2 shared verses
Judah (patriarch)1 shared verse
Esau (Edom)1 shared verse
Hezekiahson of Ahaz1 shared verse
Micah1 shared verse

In the Bible

All 6 verses in Joel, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Joel

Joel 2:1
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion; sound the alarm on My holy mountain! Let all who dwell in the land tremble, for the Day of the LORD is coming; indeed, it is near—
Joel 2:15
Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.
Joel 2:23
Be glad, O children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God, for He has given you the autumn rains for your vindication. He sends you showers, both autumn and spring rains, as before.
Joel 3:16
The LORD will roar from Zion and raise His voice from Jerusalem; heaven and earth will tremble. But the LORD will be a refuge for His people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
Joel 3:17
Then you will know that I am the LORD your God, who dwells in Zion, My holy mountain. Jerusalem will be holy, never again to be overrun by foreigners.
Joel 3:21
For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” For the LORD dwells in Zion.

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Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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. 5:7) he built on it a citadel and a palace, and it became “the city of David” (1 Kings 8:1; 2 Kings 19:21, 31; 1 Chr. 11:5). In the later books of the Old Testament this name was sometimes used (Ps. 87:2; 149:2; Isa. 33:14; Joel 2:1) to denote Jerusalem in general, and sometimes God’s chosen Israel (Ps. 51:18; 87:5).

In the New Testament it is used sometimes to denote the Church of God (Heb. 12:22), and sometimes the heavenly city (Rev. 14:1).

In the Bible

Joel

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