JERUSALEM

Passages on this topic · 300

• Genesis 14:18

  Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

• Deuteronomy 16:16

  Three times in a year all of your males shall appear before Yahweh your God in the place which he chooses: in the feast of unleavened bread, in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents. They shall not appear before Yahweh empty.

• Joshua 10:1

  Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai. and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them.

• Joshua 10:2

  They were very afraid, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

• Joshua 10:3

  Therefore Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,

• Joshua 10:4

  “Come up to me and help me. Let us strike Gibeon; for they have made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.”

• Joshua 10:5

  Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

• Joshua 10:15

  Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

• Joshua 10:16

  These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:17

  Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

• Joshua 10:18

  Joshua said, “Roll large stones to cover the cave’s entrance, and set men by it to guard them;

• Joshua 10:19

  but don’t stay there. Pursue your enemies, and attack them from the rear. Don’t allow them to enter into their cities; for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.”

• Joshua 10:20

  When Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

• Joshua 10:21

  all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. None moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

• Joshua 10:22

  Then Joshua said, “Open the cave entrance, and bring those five kings out of the cave to me.”

• Joshua 10:23

  They did so, and brought those five kings out of the cave to him: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

• Joshua 10:24

  When they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, “Come near. Put your feet on the necks of these kings.” They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

• Joshua 10:25

  Joshua said to them, “Don’t be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight.”

• Joshua 10:26

  Afterward Joshua struck them, put them to death, and hanged them on five trees. They were hanging on the trees until the evening.

• Joshua 15:63

  As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn’t drive them out; but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.

• Joshua 18:28

  Zelah, Eleph, the Jebusite (also called Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.

• Judges 1:21

  The children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites who inhabited Jerusalem, but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem to this day.

• Judges 19:10

  But the man wouldn’t stay that night, but he rose up and departed, and toward Jebus (also called Jerusalem). With him were a couple of saddled donkeys. His concubine also was with him.

• 2 Samuel 5:5

  In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months; and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

• 2 Samuel 5:6

  The king and his men went to Jerusalem against the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, who spoke to David, saying, “The blind and the lame will keep you out of here”; thinking, “David can’t come in here.”

• 2 Samuel 5:7

  Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. This is David’s city.

• 2 Samuel 5:8

  David said on that day, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites, let him go up to the watercourse and strike the lame and the blind, who are hated by David’s soul.” Therefore they say, “The blind and the lame can’t come into the house.”

• 2 Samuel 5:9

  David lived in the stronghold, and called it David’s city. David built around from Millo and inward.

• 2 Samuel 6:12

  King David was told, “Yahweh has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.” So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy.

• 2 Samuel 6:13

  When those who bore Yahweh’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

• 2 Samuel 6:14

  David danced before Yahweh with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod.

• 2 Samuel 6:15

  So David and all the house of Israel brought up Yahweh’s ark with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

• 2 Samuel 6:16

  As Yahweh’s ark came into David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out through the window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before Yahweh; and she despised him in her heart.

• 2 Samuel 6:17

  They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.

• 2 Samuel 6:18

  When David had finished offering the burnt offering and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Yahweh of Armies.

• 2 Samuel 6:19

  He gave to all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to everyone a portion of bread, dates, and raisins. So all the people departed, each to his own house.

• 2 Samuel 24:16

  When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

• 2 Samuel 24:17

  David spoke to Yahweh when he saw the angel who struck the people, and said, “Behold, I have sinned, and I have done perversely; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand be against me, and against my father’s house.”

• 2 Samuel 24:18

  Gad came that day to David, and said to him, “Go up, build an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”

• 2 Samuel 24:19

  David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Yahweh commanded.

• 2 Samuel 24:20

  Araunah looked out, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him. Then Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

• 2 Samuel 24:21

  Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” David said, “To buy your threshing floor, to build an altar to Yahweh, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”

• 2 Samuel 24:22

  Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him. Behold, the cattle for the burnt offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

• 2 Samuel 24:23

  All this, O king, does Araunah give to the king.” Araunah said to the king, “May Yahweh your God accept you.”

• 2 Samuel 24:24

  The king said to Araunah, “No; but I will most certainly buy it from you for a price. I will not offer burnt offerings to Yahweh my God which cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

• 2 Samuel 24:25

  David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So Yahweh was entreated for the land, and the plague was removed from Israel.

• 1 Kings 3:1

  Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh’s daughter, and brought her into David’s city, until he had finished building his own house, Yahweh’s house, and the wall around Jerusalem.

• 1 Kings 8:1

  Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.

• 1 Kings 8:38

  whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread out his hands toward this house,

• 1 Kings 9:15

  This is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build Yahweh’s house, his own house, Millo, Jerusalem’s wall, Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

• 1 Kings 14:25

  In the fifth year of king Rehoboam, Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem,

• 1 Kings 14:26

  and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.

• 1 Kings 15:4

  Nevertheless for David’s sake, Yahweh his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem;

• 2 Kings 14:13

  Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Kings 14:14

  He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in Yahweh’s house and in the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

• 2 Kings 16:5

  Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.

• 2 Kings 18:13

  Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them.

• 2 Kings 18:14

  Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, “I have offended you. Return from me. That which you put on me, I will bear.” The king of Assyria appointed to Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

• 2 Kings 18:15

  Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in Yahweh’s house, and in the treasures of the king’s house.

• 2 Kings 18:16

  At that time, Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of Yahweh’s temple, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

• 2 Kings 18:18

  When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.

• 2 Kings 18:19

  Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

• 2 Kings 18:20

  You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

• 2 Kings 18:21

  Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

• 2 Kings 18:22

  But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’

• 2 Kings 18:23

  Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

• 2 Kings 18:24

  How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

• 2 Kings 18:25

  Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”

• 2 Kings 18:26

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

• 2 Kings 18:27

  But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”

• 2 Kings 18:28

  Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 18:29

  Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

• 2 Kings 18:30

  Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

• 2 Kings 18:31

  Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;

• 2 Kings 18:32

  until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”

• 2 Kings 18:33

  Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

• 2 Kings 18:34

  Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

• 2 Kings 18:35

  Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

• 2 Kings 18:36

  But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

• 2 Kings 18:37

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.

• 2 Kings 19:20

  Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.

• 2 Kings 19:21

  This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

• 2 Kings 19:22

  Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!

• 2 Kings 19:23

  By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.

• 2 Kings 19:24

  I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

• 2 Kings 19:27

  But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.

• 2 Kings 19:28

  Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

• 2 Kings 19:29

  “This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.

• 2 Kings 19:30

  The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

• 2 Kings 19:31

  For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.

• 2 Kings 19:32

  “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

• 2 Kings 19:33

  By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.

• 2 Kings 19:34

  ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.’”

• 2 Kings 19:35

  That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

• 2 Kings 19:36

  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

• 2 Kings 19:37

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Kings 20:20

  Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made the pool, and the conduit, and brought water into the city, aren’t they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

• 2 Kings 23:8

  He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man’s left hand at the gate of the city.

• 2 Kings 24:8

  Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 24:9

  He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that his father had done.

• 2 Kings 24:10

  At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up to Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

• 2 Kings 24:11

  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to the city while his servants were besieging it,

• 2 Kings 24:12

  and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

• 2 Kings 24:13

  He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold, which Solomon king of Israel had made in Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.

• 2 Kings 24:14

  He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths. No one remained, except the poorest people of the land.

• 2 Kings 24:15

  He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 24:16

  All the men of might, even seven thousand, and the craftsmen and the smiths one thousand, all of them strong and fit for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:1

  In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it around it.

• 2 Kings 25:2

  So the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

• 2 Kings 25:3

  On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• 2 Kings 25:4

  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden (now the Chaldeans were against the city around it); and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

• 2 Kings 25:5

  But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

• 2 Kings 25:6

  Then they captured the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.

• 2 Kings 25:7

  They killed Zedekiah’s sons before his eyes, then put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:8

  Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 25:9

  He burned Yahweh’s house, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

• 2 Kings 25:10

  All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

• 2 Kings 25:11

  Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

• 2 Kings 25:12

  But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

• 2 Kings 25:13

  The Chaldeans broke up the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house, and carried the brass pieces to Babylon.

• 2 Kings 25:14

  They took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

• 2 Kings 25:15

  The captain of the guard took away the fire pans, the basins, that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.

• 2 Kings 25:16

  The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house, the brass of all these vessels was not weighed.

• 2 Kings 25:17

  The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and a capital of brass was on it. The height of the capital was three cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital around it, all of brass; and the second pillar with its network was like these.

• 1 Chronicles 9:18

  who previously served in the king’s gate eastward. They were the porters for the camp of the children of Levi.

• 1 Chronicles 9:34

  These were heads of fathers’ households of the Levites, throughout their generations, chief men. These lived at Jerusalem.

• 1 Chronicles 11:4

  David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (also called Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

• 1 Chronicles 11:5

  The inhabitants of Jebus said to David, “You will not come in here.” Nevertheless David took the stronghold of Zion. The same is David’s city.

• 1 Chronicles 11:6

  David said, “Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain.” Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.

• 1 Chronicles 11:7

  David lived in the stronghold; therefore they called it David’s city.

• 1 Chronicles 11:8

  He built the city all around, from Millo even around; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

• 1 Chronicles 26:16

  To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goes up, watchman opposite watchman.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1

  Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

• 2 Chronicles 6:6

  but now I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and I have chosen David to be over my people Israel.’

• 2 Chronicles 12:9

  So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem and took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house and the treasures of the king’s house. He took it all away. He also took away the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

• 2 Chronicles 12:13

  So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem and reigned; for Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which Yahweh had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonitess.

• 2 Chronicles 21:16

  Yahweh stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians who are beside the Ethiopians;

• 2 Chronicles 21:17

  and they came up against Judah, broke into it, and carried away all the posessions that were found in the king’s house, including his sons and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz, the youngest of his sons.

• 2 Chronicles 23:20

  He took the captains of hundreds, the nobles, the governors of the people, and all the people of the land, and brought the king down from Yahweh’s house. They came through the upper gate to the king’s house, and set the king on the throne of the kingdom.

• 2 Chronicles 25:23

  Joash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth Shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 25:24

  He took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in God’s house with Obed-Edom, and the treasures of the king’s house, the hostages also, and returned to Samaria.

• 2 Chronicles 25:28

  They brought him on horses, and buried him with his fathers in the City of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 26:9

  Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

• 2 Chronicles 27:3

  He built the upper gate of Yahweh’s house, and he built much on the wall of Ophel.

• 2 Chronicles 29:4

  He brought in the priests and the Levites, and gathered them together into the wide place on the east,

• 2 Chronicles 32:3

  he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:30

  This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper spring of the waters of Gihon, and brought them straight down on the west side of David’s city. Hezekiah prospered in all his works.

• 2 Chronicles 33:14

  Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 36:17

  Therefore he brought on them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or gray-headed. He gave them all into his hand.

• 2 Chronicles 36:18

  All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

• 2 Chronicles 36:19

  They burned God’s house, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and burned all its palaces with fire, and destroyed all of its valuable vessels.

• 2 Chronicles 36:20

  He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

• 2 Chronicles 36:21

  to fulfill Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths. As long as it lay desolate, it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

• 2 Chronicles 36:23

  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given all the kingdoms of the earth to me; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, Yahweh his God be with him, and let him go up.’”

• Ezra 1:1

  Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that Yahweh’s word by Jeremiah’s mouth might be accomplished, Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

• Ezra 1:2

  “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘Yahweh, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has commanded me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

• Ezra 1:3

  Whoever there is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house of Yahweh, the God of Israel (he is God), which is in Jerusalem.

• Ezra 10:9

  Then all the men of Judah and Benjamin gathered themselves together to Jerusalem within the three days. It was the ninth month, on the twentieth day of the month; and all the people sat in the wide place in front of God’s house, trembling because of this matter, and because of the great rain.

• Nehemiah 2:13

  I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

• Nehemiah 2:14

  Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.

• Nehemiah 2:15

  Then went I up in the night by the brook, and inspected the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

• Nehemiah 3:1

  Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the sheep gate. They sanctified it, and set up its doors. They sanctified it even to the tower of Hammeah, to the tower of Hananel.

• Nehemiah 3:3

  The sons of Hassenaah built the fish gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:6

  Joiada the son of Paseah and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah repaired the old gate. They laid its beams, and set up its doors, and its bolts, and its bars.

• Nehemiah 3:13

  Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the valley gate. They built it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and one thousand cubits of the wall to the dung gate.

• Nehemiah 3:15

  Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah repaired the spring gate. He built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king’s garden, even to the stairs that go down from David’s city.

• Nehemiah 3:26

  (Now the temple servants lived in Ophel, to the place over against the water gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out.)

• Nehemiah 3:28

  Above the horse gate, the priests made repairs, everyone across from his own house.

• Nehemiah 3:29

  After them, Zadok the son of Immer made repairs across from his own house. After him, Shemaiah the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east gate made repairs.

• Nehemiah 3:31

  After him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths to the house of the temple servants, and of the merchants, made repairs opposite the gate of Hammiphkad, and to the ascent of the corner.

• Nehemiah 3:32

  Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.

• Nehemiah 8:1

  All the people gathered themselves together as one man into the wide place that was in front of the water gate; and they spoke to Ezra the scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses, which Yahweh had commanded to Israel.

• Nehemiah 8:16

  So the people went out, and brought them, and made themselves temporary shelters, everyone on the roof of his house, in their courts, in the courts of God’s house, in the wide place of the water gate, and in the wide place of Ephraim’s gate.

• Nehemiah 11:1

  The princes of the people lived in Jerusalem. The rest of the people also cast lots, to bring one of ten to dwell in Jerusalem the holy city, and nine parts in the other cities.

• Nehemiah 11:18

  All the Levites in the holy city were two hundred eighty-four.

• Nehemiah 12:31

  Then I brought up the princes of Judah on the wall, and appointed two great companies who gave thanks and went in procession. One went on the right hand on the wall toward the dung gate;

• Nehemiah 12:37

  By the spring gate, and straight before them, they went up by the stairs of David’s city, at the ascent of the wall, above David’s house, even to the water gate eastward.

• Nehemiah 12:39

  and above the gate of Ephraim, and by the old gate, and by the fish gate, and the tower of Hananel, and the tower of Hammeah, even to the sheep gate: and they stood still in the gate of the guard.

• Psalms 6:4

  Return, Yahweh. Deliver my soul, and save me for your loving kindness’ sake.

• Psalms 46:4

  There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, the holy place of the tents of the Most High.

• Psalms 48:2

  Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

• Psalms 76:2

  His tabernacle is also in Salem; His dwelling place in Zion.

• Psalms 122:3

  Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together;

• Psalms 122:4

  where the tribes go up, even Yah’s tribes, according to an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to Yahweh’s name.

• Psalms 122:5

  For there are set thrones for judgment, the thrones of David’s house.

• Psalms 122:6

  Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper.

• Psalms 125:2

  As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so Yahweh surrounds his people from this time forward and forever more.

• Psalms 137:1

  By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

• Psalms 137:2

  On the willows in that land, we hung up our harps.

• Psalms 137:3

  For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

• Psalms 137:4

  How can we sing Yahweh’s song in a foreign land?

• Psalms 137:5

  If I forget you, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill.

• Psalms 137:6

  Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you; if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.

• Psalms 137:7

  Remember, Yahweh, against the children of Edom, the day of Jerusalem; who said, “Raze it! Raze it even to its foundation!”

• Isaiah 7:3

  Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.

• Isaiah 22:9

  You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

• Isaiah 22:10

  You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

• Isaiah 22:11

  You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.

• Isaiah 29:1

  Woe to Ariel! Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts come around;

• Isaiah 33:20

  Look at Zion, the city of our appointed festivals. Your eyes will see Jerusalem, a quiet habitation, a tent that won’t be removed. Its stakes will never be plucked up, nor will any of its cords be broken.

• Isaiah 36:2

  The king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to king Hezekiah with a large army. He stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool in the fuller’s field highway.

• Isaiah 62:1

  For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until her righteousness shines out like the dawn, and her salvation like a burning lamp.

• Isaiah 62:2

  The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you will be called by a new name, which Yahweh‘s mouth will name.

• Isaiah 62:3

  You will also be a crown of beauty in Yahweh‘s hand, and a royal diadem in your God‘s hand.

• Isaiah 62:4

  You will not be called Forsaken any more; nor will your land be called Desolate any more: but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land will be married.

• Isaiah 62:5

  For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over his bride, so your God will rejoice over you.

• Isaiah 62:6

  I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem. They will never be silent day nor night. You who call on Yahweh, take no rest,

• Isaiah 62:7

  and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

• Jeremiah 1:3

  It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, to the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

• Jeremiah 3:17

  At that time they will call Jerusalem ‘Yahweh’s Throne;’ and all the nations will be gathered to it, to Yahweh’s name, to Jerusalem. They will no longer walk after the stubbornness of their evil heart.

• Jeremiah 32:2

  Now at that time the king of Babylon’s army was besieging Jerusalem; and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the guard, which was in the king of Judah’s house.

• Jeremiah 33:16

  In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell safely; and this is the name by which she shall be called: Yahweh our righteousness.”

• Jeremiah 37:13

  When he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, “You are defecting to the Chaldeans!”

• Jeremiah 37:21

  Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

• Jeremiah 39:3

  all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, Nergal Sharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 39:4

  When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.

• Jeremiah 52:4

  In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

• Jeremiah 52:5

  So the city was besieged to the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

• Jeremiah 52:6

  In the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was severe in the city, so that there was no bread for the people of the land.

• Jeremiah 52:7

  Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,

• Jeremiah 52:12

  Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 52:13

  He burned Yahweh’s house, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, he burned with fire.

• Jeremiah 52:14

  All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

• Jeremiah 52:15

  Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the poorest of the people, and the residue of the people who were left in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to the king of Babylon, and the residue of the multitude.

• Jeremiah 52:16

  But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vineyard keepers and farmers.

• Jeremiah 52:17

  The Chaldeans broke the pillars of brass that were in Yahweh’s house, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in Yahweh’s house in pieces, and carried all of their brass to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 52:18

  They also took away the pots, the shovels, the snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and all the vessels of brass with which they ministered.

• Jeremiah 52:19

  The captain of the guard took away the cups, the fire pans, the basins, the pots, the lamp stands, the spoons, and the bowls; that which was of gold, in gold, and that which was of silver, in silver.

• Jeremiah 52:20

  They took the two pillars, the one sea, and the twelve bronze bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made for Yahweh’s house. The brass of all these vessels was without weight.

• Jeremiah 52:21

  As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits; and a line of twelve cubits encircled it; and its thickness was four fingers. It was hollow.

• Jeremiah 52:22

  A capital of brass was on it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates on the capital all around, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like these, and pomegranates.

• Jeremiah 52:23

  There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were one hundred on the network all around.

• Jeremiah 52:24

  The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold:

• Lamentations 1:5

  Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.

• Lamentations 1:6

  All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion: her princes have become like deer that find no pasture, they have gone without strength before the pursuer.

• Lamentations 1:7

  Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her, The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations.

• Lamentations 1:8

  Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she has become as an unclean thing; all who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.

• Lamentations 2:15

  All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

• Ezekiel 36:38

  As the flock for sacrifice, as the flock of Jerusalem in her appointed feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

• Ezekiel 45:6

  You shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand wide, and twenty-five thousand long, side by side with the offering of the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.

• Ezekiel 48:31

  and the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates northward: the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one.

• Ezekiel 48:32

  At the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

• Ezekiel 48:33

  At the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

• Ezekiel 48:34

  At the west side four thousand and five hundred reeds, with their three gates: the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtali, one.

• Ezekiel 48:35

  It shall be eighteen thousand reeds around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.

• Daniel 6:10

  When Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his room toward Jerusalem) and he kneeled on his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did before.

• Daniel 9:16

  Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.

• Daniel 9:20

  While I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before Yahweh my God for the holy mountain of my God;

• Micah 4:8

  You, tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, yes, the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

• Zechariah 8:3

  Yahweh says: “I have returned to Zion, and will dwell in the middle of Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called ‘The City of Truth;’ and the mountain of Yahweh of Armies, ‘The Holy Mountain.’”

• Zechariah 9:13

  For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.

• Zechariah 14:10

  All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin’s gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king’s wine presses.

• Matthew 4:5

  Then the devil took him into the holy city. He set him on the pinnacle of the temple,

• Matthew 5:35

  nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

• Luke 2:41

  His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.

• John 4:20

  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

• John 5:1

  After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

• John 7:1

  After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

• John 7:2

  Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was at hand.

• John 7:3

  His brothers therefore said to him, “Depart from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do.

• John 7:4

  For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

• John 7:5

  For even his brothers didn’t believe in him.

• John 7:6

  Jesus therefore said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always ready.

• John 7:7

  The world can’t hate you, but it hates me, because I testify about it, that its works are evil.

• John 7:8

  You go up to the feast. I am not yet going up to this feast, because my time is not yet fulfilled.”

• John 7:9

  Having said these things to them, he stayed in Galilee.

• John 7:10

  But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly, but as it were in secret.

• John 7:11

  The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, “Where is he?”

• John 7:12

  There was much murmuring among the multitudes concerning him. Some said, “He is a good man.” Others said, “Not so, but he leads the multitude astray.”

• John 7:13

  Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

• John 7:14

  But when it was now the middle of the feast, Jesus went up into the temple and taught.

• John 12:20

  Now there were certain Greeks among those that went up to worship at the feast.

• John 18:15

  Simon Peter followed Jesus, as did another disciple. Now that disciple was known to the high priest, and entered in with Jesus into the court of the high priest;

• John 19:41

  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden. In the garden was a new tomb in which no man had ever yet been laid.

• Acts 18:21

  but taking his leave of them, and saying, “I must by all means keep this coming feast in Jerusalem, but I will return again to you if God wills,” he set sail from Ephesus.

• Acts 21:34

  Some shouted one thing, and some another, among the crowd. When he couldn’t find out the truth because of the noise, he commanded him to be brought into the barracks.

• Revelation 21:2

  I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

• Revelation 21:10

  He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

• Revelation 21:11

  having the glory of God. Her light was like a most precious stone, as if it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

• Revelation 21:12

  having a great and high wall; having twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels; and names written on them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.

• Revelation 21:13

  On the east were three gates; and on the north three gates; and on the south three gates; and on the west three gates.

• Revelation 21:14

  The wall of the city had twelve foundations, and on them twelve names of the twelve Apostles of the Lamb.

• Revelation 21:15

  He who spoke with me had for a measure a golden reed to measure the city, its gates, and its walls.

• Revelation 21:16

  The city is square, and its length is as great as its width. He measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand twelve stadia. Its length, width, and height are equal.

• Revelation 21:17

  Its wall is one hundred forty-four cubits, by the measure of a man, that is, of an angel.

• Revelation 21:18

  The construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.

• Revelation 21:19

  The foundations of the city’s wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

• Revelation 21:20

  the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.

• Revelation 21:21

  The twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

• Revelation 21:22

  I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, and the Lamb, are its temple.

• Revelation 21:23

  The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.

• Revelation 21:24

  The nations will walk in its light. The kings of the earth bring the glory and honor of the nations into it.

• Revelation 21:25

  Its gates will in no way be shut by day (for there will be no night there),

• Revelation 21:26

  and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it so that they may enter.

• Revelation 21:27

  There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.