ZION

Passages on this topic · 73

• 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 6:16

  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.

• 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.

• 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 19:31

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

• 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 15:1

  David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.

• 1 Chronicles 15:29

  As the ark of Yahweh’s covenant came to David’s city, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out at the window, and saw king David dancing and playing; and she despised him in her heart.

• 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 5:2

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

• Psalms 3:11
• Psalms 9:11

  Sing praises to Yahweh, who dwells in Zion, and declare among the people what he has done.

• 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 48:11

  Let Mount Zion be glad! Let the daughters of Judah rejoice, Because of your judgments.

• Psalms 48:12

  Walk about Zion, and go around her. Number its towers.

• Psalms 74:2

  Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance; Mount Zion, in which you have lived.

• Psalms 87:2

  Yahweh loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

• Psalms 87:3

  Glorious things are spoken about you, city of God. Selah.

• Psalms 87:5

  Yes, of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one was born in her”; the Most High himself will establish her.

• Psalms 132:13

  For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.

• Psalms 137:1

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

• Psalms 149:2

  Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

• Isaiah 33:14

  The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

• 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 35:10

  The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”

• Isaiah 40:9

  You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”

• Isaiah 49:14

  But Zion said, “Yahweh has forsaken me, and the Lord has forgotten me.”

• Isaiah 51:3

  For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

• Isaiah 51:11

  Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

• Isaiah 51:16

  I have put my words in your mouth, and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

• Isaiah 52:1

  Awake, awake! Put on your strength, Zion. Put on your beautiful garments, Jerusalem, the holy city: for from now on the uncircumcised and the unclean will no more come into you.

• Isaiah 52:2

  Shake yourself from the dust! Arise, sit up, Jerusalem! Release yourself from the bonds of your neck, captive daughter of Zion!

• Isaiah 52:7

  How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

• Isaiah 52:8

  Your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Yahweh returns to Zion.

• Isaiah 59:20

  “A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

• Isaiah 60:14

  The sons of those who afflicted you will come bowing to you; and all those who despised you will bow themselves down at the soles of your feet. They will call you Yahweh’s City, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

• 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 62:11

  Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.’”

• Jeremiah 9:19

  For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, ‘How are we ruined! We are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’”

• Jeremiah 30:17

  For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds,” says Yahweh; “because they have called you an outcast, saying, ‘It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.’”

• Jeremiah 31:6

  For there will be a day that the watchmen on the hills of Ephraim cry, ‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion to Yahweh our God.’”

• Jeremiah 50:5

  They will inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, saying, ‘Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.’

• Lamentations 1:4

  The ways of Zion mourn, because no one come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

• Joel 2:1

  Blow the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain! Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble, for the day of Yahweh comes, for it is close at hand:

• Joel 2:15

  Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly.

• Obadiah 1:17

  But in Mount Zion, there will be those who escape, and it will be holy. The house of Jacob will possess their possessions.

• Obadiah 1:18

  The house of Jacob will be a fire, the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esau.” Indeed, Yahweh has spoken.

• Obadiah 1:19

  Those of the South will possess the mountain of Esau, and those of the lowland, the Philistines. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Benjamin will possess Gilead.

• Obadiah 1:20

  The captives of this army of the children of Israel, who are among the Canaanites, will possess even to Zarephath; and the captives of Jerusalem, who are in Sepharad, will possess the cities of the Negev.

• Obadiah 1:21

  Saviors will go up on Mount Zion to judge the mountains of Esau, and the kingdom will be Yahweh’s.

• Zephaniah 3:14

  Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.

• Zephaniah 3:16

  In that day, it will be said to Jerusalem, “Don’t be afraid, Zion. Don’t let your hands be weak.”

• Zechariah 1:14

  So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

• Zechariah 1:17

  “Proclaim further, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and Yahweh will again comfort Zion, and will again choose Jerusalem.”’”

• Zechariah 2:7

  ‘Come, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.’

• Zechariah 2:10

  Sing and rejoice, daughter of Zion; for, behold, I come, and I will dwell within you,’ says Yahweh.

• Zechariah 8:2

  Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”

• 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 9:9

  Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

• 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.

• Matthew 21:5

  “Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”

• John 12:15

  “Don’t be afraid, daughter of Zion. Behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey’s colt.”

• Romans 9:33

  even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”

• Romans 11:26

  and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

• Hebrews 12:22

  But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,

• 1 Peter 2:6

  Because it is contained in Scripture, “Behold, I lay in Zion a chief cornerstone, chosen, and precious: He who believes in him will not be disappointed.”

• Revelation 14:1

  I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.