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Zion
Hill mentioned in 25 verses of the Bible, most often in Isaiah.
Journeys through Zion
- Jesus’ birth and childhood (c. 6–4 BC and after)
- The road to Jerusalem (c. AD 29–30)
- The last week and the resurrection (Passover, AD 30 or 33)
- Abraham (c. 2000 BC (traditional))
- Judah into exile (597 and 586 BC)
- The return (538–445 BC)
- Paul’s third journey (c. AD 53–57)
- Paul’s voyage to Rome (c. AD 59–60)
Where it appears
Isaiah (8), Psalms (6), Micah (3), Obadiah (2), 2 Kings (1), Jeremiah (1), Lamentations (1), Joel (1), Hebrews (1), Revelation (1)
Key verses
- 2 Kings 19:31 first mention — For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
- Psalms 78:68 — But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.
- Psalms 125:1 — [A Song of degrees.] They that trust in the LORD shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.
- Isaiah 4:5 — And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.
- Isaiah 10:12 — Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
- Isaiah 24:23 — Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
- Joel 2:32 — And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
- Obadiah 1:21 — And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the LORD’s.
- Micah 3:12 — Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.
- Micah 4:1 — But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
- Hebrews 12:22 — But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
- Revelation 14:1 — And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
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Bible Geocoding Data by OpenBible.info (https://www.openbible.info/geo/), CC BY 4.0. Map: Natural Earth (public domain). Verse text: King James Version.