Places of the Bible

Zion

Mountain · Same as Jerusalem

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name 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. The numbers are the lines below.

1 Reign of David · 1054 BC · 1 verse
2 Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
3 Prophecies of Joel · 819 BC · 6 verses
4 Prophecies of Amos · 787 BC · 2 verses
5 Prophecies of Isaiah · 758 BC · 39 verses
6 Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 8 verses
7 Reign of Hezekiah · 725 BC · 1 verse
8 Prophecies of Jeremiah · 627 BC · 17 verses
9 Prophecies of Zephaniah · 609 BC · 2 verses
10 Prophecies of Zechariah · 519 BC · 8 verses
11 Holy Week · 30 AD · 2 verses
12 Triumphal Entry · 30 AD · 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 140 verses

2 Samuel: 5:7
1 Kings: 8:1
2 Kings: 19:21
1 Chronicles: 11:5
2 Chronicles: 5:2
Psalms: 2:6, 9:11, 9:14, 14:7, 20:2, 48:12, 50:2, 51:18, 53:6, 65:1, 69:35, 76:2, 84:7, 87:2, 87:5, 97:8, 99:2, 102:13, 102:16, 102:21, 110:2, 126:1, 128:5, 129:5, 132:13, 133:3, 134:3, 135:21, 137:1, 137:3, 146:10, 147:12, 149:2
Song of Solomon: 3:11
Isaiah: 1:8, 1:27, 2:3, 3:16, 3:17, 4:3, 4:4, 10:24, 10:32, 12:6, 14:32, 16:1, 28:16, 30:19, 31:9, 33:5, 33:14, 33:20, 34:8, 35:10, 37:22, 40:9, 41:27, 46:13, 49:14, 51:3, 51:11, 51:16, 52:1, 52:2, 52:7, 52:8, 59:20, 60:14, 61:3, 62:1, 62:11, 64:10, 66:8
Jeremiah: 3:14, 4:6, 4:31, 6:2, 6:23, 8:19, 9:19, 14:19, 26:18, 30:17, 31:6, 31:12, 50:5, 50:28, 51:10, 51:24, 51:35
Lamentations: 1:4, 1:6, 1:17, 2:1, 2:4, 2:6, 2:8, 2:10, 2:13, 2:18, 4:2, 4:11, 4:22, 5:11
Joel: 2:1, 2:15, 2:23, 3:16, 3:17, 3:21
Amos: 1:2, 6:1
Micah: 1:13, 3:10, 3:12, 4:2, 4:8, 4:10, 4:11, 4:13
Zephaniah: 3:14, 3:16
Zechariah: 1:14, 1:17, 2:7, 2:10, 8:2, 8:3, 9:9, 9:13
Matthew: 21:5
John: 12:15
Romans: 9:33, 11:26
1 Peter: 2:6

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.