יְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵם

ye.ru.sha.laimJerusalem
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place643 occurrences26 books600 verses
This is the name of the place Jerusalem: The capital of Israel, a holy city for three religions.

Definition

rarely יְרוּשָׁלַיִם; a dual (in allusion to its two main hills (the true pointing, at least of the former reading, seems to be that of H3390)); probably from (the passive participle of) H3384 and H7999; founded peaceful; Jerushalaim or Jerushalem, the capital city of Palestine
Traditional renderings: Jerusalem.

Glossary entries

Zion Jerusalem Jebus, Jebusite Salem Ariel (Place) Hephzibah

Where it occurs

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Occurrences

643 total
  1. 2 Kings 21:1בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His mother’s name was Hephzibah.
  2. 2 Kings 21:4בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · In Jerusalem
    Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”
  3. 2 Kings 21:7וּבִירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · and in Jerusalem
    Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
  4. 2 Kings 21:12יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.
  5. 2 Kings 21:13 (2×)יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · Jerusalem; יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם · Jerusalem
    I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.
  6. 2 Kings 21:16יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.
  7. 2 Kings 21:19בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His mother’s name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.
  8. 2 Kings 22:1בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His mother’s name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.
  9. 2 Kings 22:14בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · in Jerusalem
    So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.
  10. 2 Kings 23:1וִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · and Jerusalem
    Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.
  11. 2 Kings 23:2יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם · Jerusalem
    And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
  12. 2 Kings 23:4לִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · Jerusalem
    Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
  13. 2 Kings 23:5יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · Jerusalem
    Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.
  14. 2 Kings 23:6לִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · Jerusalem
    He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.
  15. 2 Kings 23:9בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
  16. 2 Kings 23:13יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · Jerusalem
    The king also desecrated the high places east of Jerusalem, to the south of the Mount of Corruption, which King Solomon of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
  17. 2 Kings 23:20יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · to Jerusalem
    On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
  18. 2 Kings 23:23בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem
    But in the eighteenth year of Josiah’s reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.
  19. 2 Kings 23:24וּבִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · and in Jerusalem
    Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
  20. 2 Kings 23:27יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · Jerusalem
    For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ‘My Name shall be there.’”
  21. 2 Kings 23:30יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · Jerusalem
    From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.
  22. 2 Kings 23:31בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
  23. 2 Kings 23:33בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
  24. 2 Kings 23:36בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Zebidah daughter of Pedaiah; she was from Rumah.
  25. 2 Kings 24:4יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    …and also for the innocent blood he had shed. For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to forgive.
  26. 2 Kings 24:8 (2×)בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem; מִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · she was from Jerusalem
    Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta daughter of Elnathan; she was from Jerusalem.
  27. 2 Kings 24:10יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · to Jerusalem
    At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched up to Jerusalem, and the city came under siege.
  28. 2 Kings 24:14יְ֠רוּשָׁלִַם · Jerusalem
    He carried into exile all Jerusalem—all the commanders and mighty men of valor, all the craftsmen and metalsmiths—ten thousand captives in all. Only the poorest people of the land remained.
  29. 2 Kings 24:15מִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · from Jerusalem
    Nebuchadnezzar carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, as well as the king’s mother, his wives, his officials, and the leading men of the land. He took them into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.
  30. 2 Kings 24:18בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
  31. 2 Kings 24:20בִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · in Jerusalem
    For because of the anger of the LORD, all this happened in Jerusalem and Judah, until He finally banished them from His presence. And Zedekiah also rebelled against the king of Babylon.
  32. 2 Kings 25:1יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
  33. 2 Kings 25:8יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem
    On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign over Babylon, Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
  34. 2 Kings 25:9יְרוּשָׁלִַ֛ם · of Jerusalem
    He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  35. 2 Kings 25:10יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    And the whole army of the Chaldeans under the captain of the guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.
  36. 1 Chronicles 3:4בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס · in Jerusalem
    These six sons were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. And David reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years,
  37. 1 Chronicles 3:5בִּירוּשָׁלָ֑יִם · in Jerusalem
    …and these sons were born to him in Jerusalem: Shimea, Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon. These four were born to him by Bathsheba daughter of Ammiel.
  38. 1 Chronicles 6:10בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem
    Johanan was the father of Azariah, who served as priest in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem,
  39. 1 Chronicles 6:15וִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · and Jerusalem
    Jehozadak went into captivity when the LORD sent Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.
  40. 1 Chronicles 6:32בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    They ministered with song before the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, until Solomon built the house of the LORD in Jerusalem. And they performed their duties according to the regulations given them.
  41. 1 Chronicles 8:28בִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס · in Jerusalem
    All these were heads of families, the chiefs according to their genealogies, and they lived in Jerusalem.
  42. 1 Chronicles 8:32בִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · in Jerusalem
    …and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeah. They too lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.
  43. 1 Chronicles 9:3וּבִירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · in Jerusalem
    Some of the descendants of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and Manasseh lived in Jerusalem:
  44. 1 Chronicles 9:34בִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ · in Jerusalem
    All these were heads of Levite families, chiefs according to their genealogies, and they lived in Jerusalem.
  45. 1 Chronicles 9:38בִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · in Jerusalem
    Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They too lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.
  46. 1 Chronicles 11:4יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · to Jerusalem
    Then David and all the Israelites marched to Jerusalem (that is, Jebus), where the Jebusites inhabited the land.
  47. 1 Chronicles 14:3בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    And David took more wives in Jerusalem and became the father of more sons and daughters.
  48. 1 Chronicles 14:4בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    These are the names of the children born to him in Jerusalem: Shammua, Shobab, Nathan, Solomon,