Places of the Bible
Mount Zion
Mountain
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Mount Zion, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Prophecies of Joel · 819 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 8 verses
- Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Hezekiah · 725 BC · 1 verse
- Prophecies of Obadiah · 584 BC · 2 verses
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
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).
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 21 verses
- 2 Kings
- 19:31
- Psalms
- 48:2, 48:11, 74:2, 78:68, 125:1
- Isaiah
- 4:5, 8:18, 10:12, 18:7, 24:23, 29:8, 31:4, 37:32
- Lamentations
- 5:18
- Joel
- 2:32
- Obadiah
- 1:17, 1:21
- Micah
- 4:7
- Hebrews
- 12:22
- Revelation
- 14:1
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.