Judean hill country · both · 820 verses
Jerusalem is the chief city of Israel, set in the Judean hill country. It was earlier called Jebus and held by the Jebusites. The name appears in Genesis, Deuteronomy, Joshua and 36 more in the King James text.
About Jerusalem
Jerusalem is the chief city of Israel, set in the Judean hill country. It was earlier called Jebus and held by the Jebusites.
Its place in the story
David captured Jerusalem and made it his capital and brought the ark there, and Solomon built the temple on its heights. It became the center of worship and kingship, and the prophets spoke both of its judgment and its hope.
Jerusalem in Scripture (KJV)
“And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.”
“Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had 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;”
“Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,”
“Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.”
“And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.”
“And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants northward:”
Jerusalem is the chief city of Israel, set in the Judean hill country. It was earlier called Jebus and held by the Jebusites. The name appears in Genesis, Deuteronomy, Joshua and 36 more in the King James text.
What happened at Jerusalem?
David captured Jerusalem and made it his capital and brought the ark there, and Solomon built the temple on its heights. It became the center of worship and kingship, and the prophets spoke both of its judgment and its hope.