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Jerusalem names 5 things on this site
- Jerusalem, a place of Scripture.The city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose, and which Scripture names last as the city…
- Jerusalem, a heading of the topical index.A heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- Jerusalem Destroyed - 70 AD, a messianic prophecy.Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed after the Messiah was 'cut off.'
- Jerusalem Trampled by Gentiles, a messianic prophecy.Jerusalem would be controlled by Gentile nations for an extended period.
- Jerusalem Trodden Down Until Times of Gentiles, an answer in the Evidence Room.Jesus predicted in Luke 21 that Jerusalem would be destroyed, its people scattered, and the city trampled by Gentiles until 'the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled'—fulfilled…
Featured studies
25 results- StudyNehemiah: the Study GuideA burdened cupbearer prays, is sent, and rebuilds Jerusalem's wall in 52 days under mockery and conspiracy: then, with Ezra, leads the city into the Word, a signed covenant, and a watch that does…
- StudyThe New JerusalemScripture's last vision is a city measured with a golden reed — a cube of gold where Eden is restored and God dwells with men.
- StudyTrees — Eden, Cross, New JerusalemTwo trees stood in Eden and framed the first choice. One stood on Calvary and absorbed the consequence of the wrong one. The tree of life closes the canon, multiplied and unguarded.
- StudyZion & JerusalemA featured study on this subject, with its Scripture, its sources and its figures.
- StudyThe Jerusalem CouncilMust a Gentile become a Jew to be saved? Four voices answered it in Acts 15: and the letter that left the room set the church free of the yoke.
Verses
768 results- VersePsalms 122:3Jerusalem is built up as a city united together,
- VerseJeremiah 52:29in Nebuchadnezzar’s eighteenth year, 832 people from Jerusalem;
- VerseJoshua 12:10the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
- VersePsalms 147:12Exalt the LORD, O Jerusalem; praise your God, O Zion!
- VerseGalatians 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
People
10 results- PersonSimeonA righteous and devout man of Jerusalem on whom the Holy Spirit rested, promised he would not die before seeing the Lord's Christ. Taking the infant Jesus in his arms he sings…
- PersonBarnabasThe Levite from Cyprus whom the apostles nicknamed son of encouragement; he vouched for Saul when nobody in Jerusalem would go near him, fetched him from Tarsus to Antioch, and…
- PersonSilasA leading man among the brethren, sent from Jerusalem to carry the Council's letter to Antioch, and then Paul's companion on the second journey — singing hymns at midnight in…
- PersonSennacheribKing of Assyria whose siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC ended with the angel of Jehovah in the camp — and whose own annals boast of shutting Hezekiah up "like a bird in a cage"…
- PersonManassehJudah's longest-reigning and worst king, who filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; the book names his apostasy as the cause of 586 BC — and Chronicles records his late…
Places
14 results- PlaceJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose, and which Scripture names last as the city…
- PlaceMiletusThe port where Paul, hurrying to Jerusalem, summoned the Ephesian elders for the farewell address that is the only speech in Acts delivered to a Christian audience.
- PlaceNobThe town of the priests near Jerusalem where David ate the showbread, the precedent Jesus cited, and which Saul put to the sword.
- PlaceEmmausThe village on the road from Jerusalem where the risen Christ opened Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms to two disciples and was known to them in the breaking of the bread.
- PlaceEdenThe garden God planted in the east with the tree of life and a river, lost at the fall and opened again in the New Jerusalem.
Events
2 results- EventCrucifixion of ChristThe public execution of Jesus of Nazareth by Roman crucifixion in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate — the central event of the Christian faith.
- EventBabylonian Exile (586 BCE)The Neo-Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem and the First Temple, and the resulting deportation of most of Judah's population — the central trauma of the Hebrew Bible.
Words (Strong's)
- WordH3390 יְרוּשָׁלֵם · Yᵉrûwshâlêm (Hebrew){Jerusalem}. The Hebrew word stands 26 times in the original text.
- WordH3389 יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם · Yᵉrûwshâlaim (Hebrew)Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine. The Hebrew word stands 643 times in the original text.
- WordG2414 Ἱεροσόλυμα · Hierosólyma (Greek)Hierosolyma (i.e. Jerushalaim), the capitol of Palestine. The Greek word stands 62 times in the original text.
- WordG2419 Ἱερουσαλήμ · Hierousalḗm (Greek)Hierusalem (i.e. Jerushalem), the capitol of Palestine. The Greek word stands 76 times in the original text.
- WordG2415 Ἱεροσολυμίτης · Hierosolymítēs (Greek)a Hierosolymite, i.e. inhabitant of Hierosolyma. The Greek word stands 2 times in the original text.
Themes
5 results- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeHope**Biblical hope is not optimism.** It is confident expectation anchored in God's character and God's word, held by people who often cannot see the outcome and sometimes cannot…
- ThemeMercyMercy in Scripture is not a mood God occasionally feels but a self-disclosed name. When the LORD passes before Moses on Sinai and proclaims who He is, the first words out are…
- ThemeResurrectionThe hope of resurrection surfaces gradually across the Old Testament before it becomes explicit. Job — likely the oldest book in the canon — already confesses a living Redeemer…
Topics
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18 results- ProphecyJerusalem Destroyed - 70 ADJerusalem and the temple would be destroyed after the Messiah was 'cut off.'
- ProphecyJerusalem Trampled by GentilesJerusalem would be controlled by Gentile nations for an extended period.
- ProphecyJerusalem Called the City of TruthZechariah predicted a restored Jerusalem with old men, old women, and playing children filling the streets—peaceful everyday life.
- ProphecyNations Attack JerusalemAll nations will unite to attack Jerusalem before Christ's return.
- ProphecyNew Jerusalem DescendsThe New Jerusalem will descend from heaven as the eternal dwelling of God with His people.
Apologetics
8 results- ApologeticsJerusalem Trodden Down Until Times of GentilesJesus predicted in Luke 21 that Jerusalem would be destroyed, its people scattered, and the city trampled by Gentiles until 'the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled'—fulfilled…
- ApologeticsThe Destruction of Jerusalem (70 CE): The Synoptics vs. JosephusJesus' Matthew 24 / Luke 21 oracle against Jerusalem laid beside Josephus's eyewitness account of Titus's 70 CE siege - with the dating question fully steelmanned.
- ApologeticsHezekiah's TunnelTwo crews cut 1,750 feet through solid limestone under Jerusalem and met in the middle, and the workmen chiselled a first-person account of the breakthrough into the wall in…
- ApologeticsThe Ketef Hinnom Silver ScrollsTwo rolled silver amulets from a sealed burial chamber on the shoulder of the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem carry the priestly blessing of Numbers 6 and the divine name YHWH…
- ApologeticsCyrus Named 150 Years Before His BirthIsaiah 44-45 names Cyrus the Great as Israel's deliverer roughly 150 years before his birth, describing his specific role in rebuilding Jerusalem and releasing the Jewish exiles.
Voices
6 results- VoiceCyril of JerusalemCyril was born about 313 and became bishop of Jerusalem around 350. He held the see, off and on, for thirty-five years — off and on because he was driven out of it three times…
- VoiceHesychius of JerusalemHesychius was a priest and monk of Jerusalem in the first half of the fifth century. Cyril of Scythopolis, writing a century later, describes him as a great teacher of the…
- VoiceAlexander of JerusalemAlexander studied in Alexandria alongside Origen, under Pantaenus and then Clement, before he went home to Cappadocia and was made a bishop there. The persecution under…
- VoiceSophronius of JerusalemSophronius was born about 560 in Damascus and taught rhetoric before he gave it up for the monastic life — men who knew him called him Sophronius the Sophist. He travelled for…
- VoiceTheophanes of NicaeaTheophanes was born in Palestine about 778 and became a monk at the great desert monastery of Mar Saba, near Jerusalem, together with his brother Theodore. Their father had…
Apocrypha (study resources)
192 results- Study resourceSirach 36:13O be merciful unto Jerusalem, thy holy city, the place of thy rest.
- Study resource1 Esdras 2:4And commanded me to build him an house at Jerusalem in Jewry.
- Study resource1 Esdras 1:35And he reigned in Judea and in Jerusalem three months: and then the king of Egypt deposed him from reigning in Jerusalem.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:6And when he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Juda and Jerusalem,
- Study resourceTobit 13:17And the streets of Jerusalem shall be paved with beryl and carbuncle and stones of Ophir.
Doorways
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H3390יְרוּשָׁלֵם Yᵉrûwshâlêm — {Jerusalem}H3389יְרוּשָׁלַ͏ִם Yᵉrûwshâlaim — Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of PalestineG2414Ἱεροσόλυμα Hierosólyma — Hierosolyma (i.e. Jerushalaim), the capitol
of PalestineG2419Ἱερουσαλήμ Hierousalḗm — Hierusalem (i.e. Jerushalem), the capitol of
PalestineG2415Ἱεροσολυμίτης Hierosolymítēs — a Hierosolymite, i.e. inhabitant of HierosolymaH6726צִיּוֹן Tsîyôwn — Tsijon (as a permanent capital), a mountain of Jerusalem