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 Chronicles 20:27 (2×)וִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · and Jerusalem; יְרוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · Jerusalem
    Then all the men of Judah and Jerusalem, with Jehoshaphat at their head, returned joyfully to Jerusalem, for the LORD had made them rejoice over their enemies.
  2. 2 Chronicles 20:28יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · Jerusalem
    So they entered Jerusalem and went into the house of the LORD with harps, lyres, and trumpets.
  3. 2 Chronicles 20:31בִּֽירוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · in Jerusalem
    So Jehoshaphat reigned over Judah. He was thirty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-five years. His mother’s name was Azubah daughter of Shilhi.
  4. 2 Chronicles 21:5בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem
    Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years.
  5. 2 Chronicles 21:11יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · of Jerusalem
    Jehoram had also built high places on the hills of Judah; he had caused the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves and had led Judah astray.
  6. 2 Chronicles 21:13יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · of Jerusalem
    …but you have walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and have caused Judah and the people of Jerusalem to prostitute themselves, just as the house of Ahab prostituted itself. You have also killed your brothers, your father’s family, who were better than you.
  7. 2 Chronicles 21:20בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eight years. He died, to no one’s regret, and was buried in the City of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
  8. 2 Chronicles 22:1יְרוּשָׁלִַ֜ם · of Jerusalem
    Then the people of Jerusalem made Ahaziah, the youngest son of Jehoram, king in his place, since the raiders who had come into the camp with the Arabs had killed all the older sons. So Ahaziah son of Jehoram became king of Judah.
  9. 2 Chronicles 22:2בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem one year. His mother’s name was Athaliah, the granddaughter of Omri.
  10. 2 Chronicles 23:2יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem
    So they went throughout Judah and gathered the Levites from all the cities of Judah and the heads of the families of Israel. And when they came to Jerusalem,
  11. 2 Chronicles 24:1בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.
  12. 2 Chronicles 24:6וּמִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · and Jerusalem
    So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”
  13. 2 Chronicles 24:9וּבִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · and Jerusalem
    And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.
  14. 2 Chronicles 24:18וִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · and Jerusalem
    They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs.
  15. 2 Chronicles 24:23וִיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · and Jerusalem
    In the spring, the army of Aram went to war against Joash. They entered Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the leaders of the people, and they sent all the plunder to their king in Damascus.
  16. 2 Chronicles 25:1 (2×)בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem; מִירוּשָׁלָֽיִם׃ · she was from Jerusalem
    Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Jehoaddan; she was from Jerusalem.
  17. 2 Chronicles 25:23 (2×)יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · to Jerusalem; יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם · of Jerusalem
    There at Beth-shemesh, Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz. Then Jehoash brought him to Jerusalem and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Ephraim Gate to the Corner Gate—a section of four hundred cubits.
  18. 2 Chronicles 25:27בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · in Jerusalem
    From the time that Amaziah turned from following the LORD, a conspiracy was formed against him in Jerusalem, and he fled to Lachish. But men were sent after him to Lachish, and they killed him there.
  19. 2 Chronicles 26:3 (2×)בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem; יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem
    Uzziah was sixteen years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-two years. His mother’s name was Jecoliah; she was from Jerusalem.
  20. 2 Chronicles 26:9בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · in Jerusalem
    Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.
  21. 2 Chronicles 26:15בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֨ם · And in Jerusalem
    And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously until he became powerful.
  22. 2 Chronicles 27:1בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Jotham was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. His mother’s name was Jerushah daughter of Zadok.
  23. 2 Chronicles 27:8בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem
    He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years.
  24. 2 Chronicles 28:1בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. And unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the LORD.
  25. 2 Chronicles 28:10וִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · and Jerusalem
    And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?
  26. 2 Chronicles 28:24בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem
    Then Ahaz gathered up the articles of the house of God, cut them into pieces, shut the doors of the house of the LORD, and set up altars of his own on every street corner in Jerusalem.
  27. 2 Chronicles 28:27בִּיר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם · of Jerusalem
    And Ahaz rested with his fathers and was buried in the city of Jerusalem, but he was not placed in the tombs of the kings of Israel. And his son Hezekiah reigned in his place.
  28. 2 Chronicles 29:1בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.
  29. 2 Chronicles 29:8וִירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · and Jerusalem
    Therefore, the wrath of the LORD has fallen upon Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, horror, and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
  30. 2 Chronicles 30:1בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    Then Hezekiah sent word throughout all Israel and Judah, and he also wrote letters to Ephraim and Manasseh inviting them to come to the house of the LORD in Jerusalem to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel.
  31. 2 Chronicles 30:2בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    For the king and his officials and the whole assembly in Jerusalem had decided to keep the Passover in the second month,
  32. 2 Chronicles 30:3לִֽירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem
    …since they had been unable to keep it at the regular time, because not enough priests had consecrated themselves and the people had not been gathered in Jerusalem.
  33. 2 Chronicles 30:5בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    So they established a decree to circulate a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan, that the people should come to keep the Passover of the LORD, the God of Israel, in Jerusalem. For they had not observed it in great numbers as prescribed.
  34. 2 Chronicles 30:11לִירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · to Jerusalem
    Nevertheless, some from Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
  35. 2 Chronicles 30:13יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · in Jerusalem
    In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
  36. 2 Chronicles 30:14בִּירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem
    They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley.
  37. 2 Chronicles 30:21בִּֽירוּשָׁלִַ֜ם · in Jerusalem
    The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.
  38. 2 Chronicles 30:26 (2×)בִּֽירוּשָׁלִָ֑ם · in Jerusalem; בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ס · [there]
    So there was great rejoicing in Jerusalem, for nothing like this had happened there since the days of Solomon son of David king of Israel.
  39. 2 Chronicles 31:4יְרוּשָׁלִַ֔ם · in Jerusalem
    Moreover, he commanded the people living in Jerusalem to make a contribution for the priests and Levites so that they could devote themselves to the Law of the LORD.
  40. 2 Chronicles 32:2יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · Jerusalem
    When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to make war against Jerusalem,
  41. 2 Chronicles 32:9 (2×)יְר֣וּשָׁלַ֔יְמָה · to Jerusalem; בִּירוּשָׁלִַ֖ם · were in Jerusalem
    Later, as Sennacherib king of Assyria and all his forces besieged Lachish, he sent his servants to Jerusalem with a message for King Hezekiah of Judah and all the people of Judah who were in Jerusalem:
  42. 2 Chronicles 32:10בִּירוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ · in Jerusalem
    “This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
  43. 2 Chronicles 32:12וְלִֽירוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · and Jerusalem
    Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’?
  44. 2 Chronicles 32:18יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ · of Jerusalem
    Then the Assyrians called out loudly in Hebrew to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten and terrify them in order to capture the city.