Armies : Of Jerusalem

Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king Of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;

Wherefore Adonizedek king Of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king Of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.

And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king Of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

The king Of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

As for the Jebusites the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

• Concubinage
• David
• Lasciviousness

And David took him more concubines and wives out Of Jerusalem, after he was come from Hebron: and there were yet sons and daughters born to David.

And with Absalom went two hundred men out Of Jerusalem, that were called; and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not any thing.

And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out Of Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.

And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall Of Jerusalem round about.

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall Of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

And it came to pass at that time when Jeroboam went out Of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself with a new garment; and they two were alone in the field:

He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan Of Jerusalem.

And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah, at Bethshemesh, and came to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall Of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jecholiah Of Jerusalem.

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.

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.

• Government

And the king sent, and they gathered unto him all the elders of Judah and Of Jerusalem.

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants Of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan Of Jerusalem.

And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses Of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.

And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down the walls Of Jerusalem round about.

And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants Of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD unto you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.

• Bowing
• Worship

And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem fell before the LORD, worshipping the LORD.

And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants Of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants Of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah thereto.

• Rulers

But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself:

And the inhabitants Of Jerusalem made Ahaziah his youngest son king in his stead: for the band of men that came with the Arabians to the camp had slain all the eldest. So Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah reigned.

• Tabernacle
• Temple

And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out Of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jehoaddan Of Jerusalem.

And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Bethshemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall Of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jecoliah Of Jerusalem.

• Sacrilege

And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house of the LORD, and he made him altars in every corner Of Jerusalem.

Then they cried with a loud voice in the Jews' speech unto the people Of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all other, and guided them on every side.

• Repentance

Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

• Burial

And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the chiefest of the sepulchres of the sons of David: and all Judah and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem did him honour at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.

So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.

And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD.

And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants Of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

• Passover

And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did all the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem.

• Temple

And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall Of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

• Temple

Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out Of Jerusalem, and had put them in the house of his gods;

The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God Of Jerusalem.

And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall Of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.

And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls Of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.

Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall Of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.

• Government
• Government

And next unto them repaired Rephaiah the son of Hur, the ruler of the half part Of Jerusalem.

• Government
• Government

And next unto him repaired Shallum the son of Halohesh, the ruler of the half part Of Jerusalem, he and his daughters.

But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls Of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

And I said unto them, Let not the gates Of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, every one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.

• Cymbal

And at the dedication of the wall Of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

• Joy
• Thankfulness

Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy Of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.

And it came to pass, that when the gates Of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

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

• Church

Pray for the peace Of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.

The LORD shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good Of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.

Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day Of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

• Gold
• Grape
• Wood

I am black, but comely, O ye daughters Of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.

I charge you, O ye daughters Of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

I charge you, O ye daughters Of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters Of Jerusalem.

I charge you, O daughters Of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters Of Jerusalem.

I charge you, O daughters Of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

• Purifying
• Washing

When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood Of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

And now, O inhabitants Of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

• Sanctuary
• Stones
• Stumbling

And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants Of Jerusalem.

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them Of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill Of Jerusalem.

• Fortifications
• Armies

And ye have numbered the houses Of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

This is the word which 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.

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.

Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places Of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.

It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the carrying away Of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates Of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

Go and cry in the ears Of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; I remember thee, the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land that was not sown.

Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and take away the foreskins of your heart, ye men of Judah and inhabitants Of Jerusalem: lest my fury come forth like fire, and burn that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

Run ye to and fro through the streets Of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth judgment, that seeketh the truth; and I will pardon it.

O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst Of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets Of Jerusalem?

Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets Of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

• Robbed
• Burial

At that time, saith the LORD, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

Why then is this people Of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.

Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants Of Jerusalem;

Then the LORD said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets Of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

• Conspiracy

And the LORD said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants Of Jerusalem.

• Idolatry

Then shall the cities of Judah and inhabitants Of Jerusalem go, and cry unto the gods unto whom they offer incense: but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.

For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets Of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride Of Jerusalem.

Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black unto the ground; and the cry Of Jerusalem is gone up.

And the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets Of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters: for I will pour their wickedness upon them.

Thus said the LORD unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates Of Jerusalem;

And say unto them, Hear ye the word of the LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:

Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates Of Jerusalem;

Then shall there enter into the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem: and this city shall remain for ever.

But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates Of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces Of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.

Now therefore go to, speak to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Behold, I frame evil against you, and devise a device against you: return ye now every one from his evil way, and make your ways and your doings good.

And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants Of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

• House
• Libations
• Idolatry

And the houses Of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates Of Jerusalem.

I have seen also in the prophets Of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall: for from the prophets Of Jerusalem is profaneness gone forth into all the land.

And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the residue Of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them that dwell in the land of Egypt:

The which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, saying,

Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and Of Jerusalem;

Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem.

Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets Of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,

The princes of Judah, and the princes Of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the LORD.

Therefore thus saith the LORD God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants Of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.

• Impenitence

And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them; but they hearkened not.

• Jeremiah
• Falsehood
• Indictments

Then Jeremiah went forth out Of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, to separate himself thence in the midst of the people. And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I fall not away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him: so Irijah took Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes. Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison. read more When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from the LORD? And Jeremiah said, There is: for, said he, thou shalt be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon. Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison? Where are now your prophets which prophesied unto you, saying, The king of Babylon shall not come against you, nor against this land? Therefore hear now, I pray thee, O my lord the king: let my supplication, I pray thee, be accepted before thee; that thou cause me not to return to the house of Jonathan the scribe, lest I die there. Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison. show less

And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls Of Jerusalem.

The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, after that Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive Of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants Of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets Of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, which they have committed in the land of Judah, and in the streets Of Jerusalem?

• Libations
• Idolatry
• Self-delusion

But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets Of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.

The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets Of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and came it not into his mind?

• Temple

And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses Of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:

And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls Of Jerusalem round about.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins Of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter Of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter Of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates Of Jerusalem.

Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege Of Jerusalem, and thine arm shall be uncovered, and thou shalt prophesy against it.

And the LORD said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst Of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.

Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants Of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants Of Jerusalem.

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst Of Jerusalem.

And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out Of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

As the holy flock, as the flock Of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations Of Jerusalem.

O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.

• Enslaved
• Captive
• Servant

The children also of Judah and the children Of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.

But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces Of Jerusalem.

And the captivity of this host of the children of Israel shall possess that of the Canaanites, even unto Zarephath; and the captivity Of Jerusalem, which is in Sepharad, shall possess the cities of the south.

For the inhabitant of Maroth waited carefully for good: but evil came down from the LORD unto the gate Of Jerusalem.

And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the daughter Of Jerusalem.

I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the inhabitants Of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the priests;

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

• Church

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.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets Of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst Of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

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.

And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants Of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.

The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants Of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah.

In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants Of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the LORD before them.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants Of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

• Fountain
• Fountain
• Types

In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants Of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south Of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses.

Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were Of Jerusalem, saying,

And there went out unto him all the land of Judaea, and they Of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out Of Jerusalem.

But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters Of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.

• Power

And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city Of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

Then said some of them Of Jerusalem, Is not this he, whom they seek to kill?

• Paul

And saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out Of Jerusalem: for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me.