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.
Traditional renderings: Jerusalem.
Glossary entries
Zion Jerusalem Jebus, Jebusite Salem Ariel (Place) Hephzibah
Where it occurs
Occurrences
643 total
- 1 Chronicles 15:3יְרֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · JerusalemAnd David assembled all Israel in Jerusalem to bring up the ark of the LORD to the place he had prepared for it.
- 1 Chronicles 18:7יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · to JerusalemAnd David took the gold shields that belonged to the officers of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 19:15יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ · to JerusalemWhen the Ammonites saw that the Arameans had fled, they too fled before Joab’s brother Abishai, and they entered the city. So Joab went back to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 20:1בִּירֽוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in JerusalemIn the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, Joab led out the army and ravaged the land of the Ammonites. He came to Rabbah and besieged it, but David remained in Jerusalem. And Joab attacked Rabbah and demolished it.
- 1 Chronicles 20:3יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ · to JerusalemDavid brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes. And he did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 21:4יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · to JerusalemNevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab. So Joab departed and traveled throughout Israel, and then he returned to Jerusalem.
- 1 Chronicles 21:15לִֽירוּשָׁלִַם֮ · JerusalemThen God sent an angel to destroy Jerusalem, but as the angel was doing so, the LORD saw it and relented from the calamity, and He said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 1 Chronicles 21:16יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · JerusalemWhen David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.
- 1 Chronicles 23:25בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · in JerusalemFor David had said, “The LORD, the God of Israel, has given rest to His people and has come to dwell in Jerusalem forever.
- 1 Chronicles 28:1יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · JerusalemNow David summoned all the leaders of Israel to Jerusalem: the leaders of the tribes, the leaders of the divisions in the king’s service, the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and the officials in charge of all the property and cattle of the king and his sons, along with the court officials and mighty men—every mighty man of valor.
- 1 Chronicles 29:27וּבִירוּשָׁלִַ֥ם · in JerusalemThe length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 1:4בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in JerusalemNow David had brought the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim to the place he had prepared for it, because he had pitched a tent for it in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 1:13יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · to JerusalemSo Solomon went to Jerusalem from the high place in Gibeon, from before the Tent of Meeting, and he reigned over Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 1:14בִּירֽוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in JerusalemSolomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 1:15בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · as common in JerusalemThe king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 2 Chronicles 2:7וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · and JerusalemSend me, therefore, a craftsman skilled in engraving to work with gold and silver, with bronze and iron, and with purple, crimson, and blue yarn. He will work with my craftsmen in Judah and Jerusalem, whom my father David provided.
- 2 Chronicles 2:16יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃פ · to JerusalemWe will cut logs from Lebanon, as many as you need, and we will float them to you as rafts by sea down to Joppa. Then you can take them up to Jerusalem.”
- 2 Chronicles 3:1בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · in JerusalemThen Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
- 2 Chronicles 5:2יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · JerusalemAt that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
- 2 Chronicles 6:6בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · JerusalemBut now I have chosen Jerusalem for My Name to be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 2 Chronicles 8:6בִּירֽוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · in Jerusalem…as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
- 2 Chronicles 9:1בִּירֽוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · [She arrived] in JerusalemNow when the queen of Sheba heard about the fame of Solomon, she came to test him with difficult questions. She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large caravan—with camels bearing spices, gold in abundance, and precious stones. And she came to Solomon and spoke with him about all that was on her mind.
- 2 Chronicles 9:25בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in JerusalemSolomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 9:27בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · as common in JerusalemThe king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar as abundant as sycamore in the foothills.
- 2 Chronicles 9:30בִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֛ם · in JerusalemSolomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years.
- 2 Chronicles 10:18יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס · to JerusalemThen King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 11:1יְרוּשָׁלִַם֒ · in JerusalemWhen Rehoboam arrived in Jerusalem, he mobilized the house of Judah and Benjamin—180,000 chosen warriors—to fight against Israel and restore the kingdom to Rehoboam.
- 2 Chronicles 11:5בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in JerusalemRehoboam lived in Jerusalem, and he built up cities for defense in Judah.
- 2 Chronicles 11:14וְלִֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · and JerusalemFor the Levites left their pasturelands and their possessions and went to Judah and Jerusalem, because Jeroboam and his sons had rejected them as priests of the LORD.
- 2 Chronicles 11:16יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · to JerusalemThose from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 12:2יְרוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · JerusalemIn the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt attacked Jerusalem
- 2 Chronicles 12:4יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס · JerusalemHe captured the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 12:5יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · JerusalemThen Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”
- 2 Chronicles 12:7בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · on JerusalemWhen the LORD saw that they had humbled themselves, the word of the LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, “They have humbled themselves; I will not destroy them, but will soon grant them deliverance. My wrath will not be poured out on Jerusalem through Shishak.
- 2 Chronicles 12:9יְרוּשָׁלִַם֒ · JerusalemSo King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem and seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including the gold shields that Solomon had made.
- 2 Chronicles 12:13 (2×)בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · in Jerusalem; בִּֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · in JerusalemThus King Rehoboam established himself in Jerusalem and reigned. He was forty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city the LORD had chosen from all the tribes of Israel in which to put His Name. His mother’s name was Naamah the Ammonite.
- 2 Chronicles 13:2בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · in Jerusalem…and he reigned in Jerusalem three years. His mother’s name was Micaiah daughter of Uriel; she was from Gibeah. And there was war between Abijah and Jeroboam.
- 2 Chronicles 14:15יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס · to JerusalemThey also attacked the tents of the herdsmen and carried off many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 15:10יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · in JerusalemSo they gathered together in Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of Asa’s reign.
- 2 Chronicles 17:13בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem…and kept vast supplies in the cities of Judah. He also had warriors in Jerusalem who were mighty men of valor.
- 2 Chronicles 19:1לִֽירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in JerusalemWhen Jehoshaphat king of Judah had returned safely to his home in Jerusalem,
- 2 Chronicles 19:4בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑םס · in JerusalemJehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem, and once again he went out among the people from Beersheba to the hill country of Ephraim and turned them back to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- 2 Chronicles 19:8 (2×)בִּ֠ירוּשָׁלִַם · in Jerusalem; יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in JerusalemMoreover, Jehoshaphat appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites, priests, and heads of the Israelite families to judge on behalf of the LORD and to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 20:5וִירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · and JerusalemThen Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD in front of the new courtyard
- 2 Chronicles 20:15יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · and JerusalemAnd he said, “Listen, all you people of Judah and Jerusalem! Listen, King Jehoshaphat! This is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army, for the battle does not belong to you, but to God.
- 2 Chronicles 20:17וִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · and JerusalemYou need not fight this battle. Take up your positions, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD on your behalf, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid or discouraged. Go out and face them tomorrow, for the LORD is with you.’”
- 2 Chronicles 20:18יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · and JerusalemThen Jehoshaphat bowed facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to worship Him.
- 2 Chronicles 20:20יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · and JerusalemEarly in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”