100 Bible Verses about Zion

Here are 100 Bible verses about Zion, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

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Isaiah 60:14 KJV

¹⁴ The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

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Psalm 132:13 KJV

¹³ For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.

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Hebrews 12:22 KJV

²² But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,

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Revelation 14:1 KJV

¹ And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.

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Psalm 48:2 KJV

² Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

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Romans 11:26 KJV

²⁶ And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

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Psalm 87:2 KJV

² The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

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Isaiah 2:3 KJV

³ And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 28:16 KJV

¹⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.

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Isaiah 35:10 KJV

¹⁰ And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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Psalm 50:2 KJV

² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

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Zechariah 8:3 KJV

³ Thus saith the Lord; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the Lord of hosts the holy mountain.

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1 Peter 2:6 KJV

⁶ Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

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Isaiah 51:3 KJV

³ For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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Isaiah 52:1 KJV

¹ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

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Isaiah 51:16 KJV

¹⁶ And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.

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Isaiah 52:2 KJV

² Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

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2 Samuel 5:7 KJV

⁷ Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.

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Romans 9:33 KJV

³³ As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

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Psalm 87:2-3 KJV

² The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. ³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

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Micah 4:2 KJV

² And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

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Zechariah 9:9 KJV

⁹ Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem: behold, thy King cometh unto thee: he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt the foal of an ass.

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Joel 3:17 KJV

¹⁷ So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

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Zechariah 2:10 KJV

¹⁰ Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

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Jeremiah 31:6 KJV

⁶ For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our God.

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Psalm 137:1 KJV

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.

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Joel 2:32 KJV

³² And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

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Psalm 48:11 KJV

¹¹ Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.

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Isaiah 35:6-10 KJV

⁶ Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. ⁷ And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes. ⁸ And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of …

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Isaiah 33:20 KJV

²⁰ Look upon Zion, the city of our solemnities: thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be taken down; not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken.

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Psalm 74:2 KJV

² Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

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Psalm 48:1-2 KJV

¹ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. ² Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King.

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Psalm 2:6 KJV

⁶ Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.

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Isaiah 40:9 KJV

⁹ O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

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1 Kings 8:1 KJV

¹ Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

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Zechariah 1:17 KJV

¹⁷ Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

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Isaiah 62:11 KJV

¹¹ Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

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Isaiah 51:11 KJV

¹¹ Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

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Psalm 87:5 KJV

⁵ And of Zion it shall be said, This and that man was born in her: and the highest himself shall establish her.

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Psalm 9:11 KJV

¹¹ Sing praises to the Lord, which dwelleth in Zion: declare among the people his doings.

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Matthew 21:5 KJV

⁵ Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

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Psalm 133:3 KJV

³ As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

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Isaiah 1:8 KJV

⁸ And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

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Jeremiah 3:14 KJV

¹⁴ Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

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Obadiah 1:17 KJV

¹⁷ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

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Joel 2:1 KJV

¹ Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand;

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Isaiah 62:1 KJV

¹ For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

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Jeremiah 50:5 KJV

⁵ They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.

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Isaiah 59:20 KJV

²⁰ And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.

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Isaiah 52:7 KJV

⁷ How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

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Isaiah 49:14 KJV

¹⁴ But Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.

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2 Kings 19:21 KJV

²¹ This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

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1 Chronicles 11:5 KJV

⁵ And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.

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Jeremiah 4:31 KJV

³¹ For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

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John 12:15 KJV

¹⁵ Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass’s colt.

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Zechariah 9:13 KJV

¹³ When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.

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Isaiah 33:14 KJV

¹⁴ The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

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Jeremiah 30:17 KJV

¹⁷ For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

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Isaiah 24:23 KJV

²³ Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

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Psalm 149:2 KJV

² Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

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Micah 4:7 KJV

⁷ And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong nation: and the Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.

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2 Chronicles 5:2 KJV

² Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the city of David, which is Zion.

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Psalm 51:18 KJV

¹⁸ Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

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Zechariah 1:14 KJV

¹⁴ So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.

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Zechariah 2:7 KJV

⁷ Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

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Psalm 78:68 KJV

⁶⁸ But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

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Psalm 48:12 KJV

¹² Walk about Zion, and go round about her: tell the towers thereof.

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Zephaniah 3:14 KJV

¹⁴ Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

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Micah 3:12 KJV

¹² Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

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Psalm 125:1 KJV

¹ They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

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Psalm 87:3 KJV

³ Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.

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1 Chronicles 11:7 KJV

⁷ And David dwelt in the castle; therefore they called it the city of David.

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Lamentations 1:4 KJV

⁴ The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

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Song of Solomon 3:11 KJV

¹¹ Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.

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Psalm 102:21 KJV

²¹ To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;

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2 Samuel 5:9 KJV

⁹ So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

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Amos 6:1 KJV

¹ Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!

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Isaiah 46:13 KJV

¹³ I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

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Psalm 84:5 KJV

⁵ Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

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Isaiah 4:5 KJV

⁵ And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

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Joel 2:15 KJV

¹⁵ Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

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Isaiah 8:18 KJV

¹⁸ Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

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Psalm 48:1-14 KJV

¹ Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. ² Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great King. ³ God is known in her palaces for a refuge. ⁴ For, lo, the kings were assembled, they passed by together. …

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Zephaniah 3:16 KJV

¹⁶ In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.

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2 Kings 19:31 KJV

³¹ For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

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Isaiah 52:8 KJV

⁸ Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring again Zion.

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Isaiah 52:1-2 KJV

¹ Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean. ² Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

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Psalm 132:13-14 KJV

¹³ For the Lord hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation. ¹⁴ This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.

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2 Samuel 6:12 KJV

¹² And it was told king David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.

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Obadiah 1:21 KJV

²¹ And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.

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Jeremiah 9:19 KJV

¹⁹ For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.

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Psalm 137:1-9 KJV

¹ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. ² We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. ³ For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. ⁴ How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land? …

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Psalm 65:1 KJV

¹ Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷ For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Obadiah 1:17-21 KJV

¹⁷ But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. ¹⁸ And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it. ¹⁹ And they of the south …

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Isaiah 66:8 KJV

⁸ Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

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Psalm 14:7 KJV

⁷ Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

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Psalm 2:2-6 KJV

² The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. ⁴ He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. ⁵ Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure. …

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Acts 17:10-11 KJV

¹⁰ And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. ¹¹ These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

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1 Chronicles 15:1 KJV

¹ And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

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