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Place · Mountain

Zion

Named in 140 verses across 19 books, first in Zechariah 1:14.

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 8 verses in Zechariah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Zechariah

Zechariah 1:14
Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
Zechariah 1:17
Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”
Zechariah 2:7
“Get up, O Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the Daughter of Babylon!”
Zechariah 2:10
“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.
Zechariah 8:2
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”
Zechariah 8:3
This is what the LORD says: “I will return to Zion and dwell in Jerusalem. Then Jerusalem will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the LORD of Hosts will be called the Holy Mountain.”
Zechariah 9:9
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Zechariah 9:13
For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

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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

Zechariah

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