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At the highest point in Jerusalem, just outside the walls of the Old City, lies modern Mount Zion. Every year hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to this ancient locale to see representations of Biblical sites like the tomb of David, the Last Supper Room, and the burial place of a Mary. But even if you never have the privilege of visiting the Holy Land, you can witness a breathtaking view of God’s beauty and majesty as it flows from Mount Zion, through Scripture and time.
The first time the word Zion is mentioned in the Bible is in 2 Samuel 5:7, when “David captured the fortress of Zion—which is the City of David.” However, this area of mountainous land that David captured and claimed for the Lord as Zion was mentioned in scripture well before David’s conquest.
After the first temple was built on Mount Moriah, it became known as Mount Zion. Though today the location of Mount Zion refers to a hill on the south side of Jerusalem’s Armenian Quarter, the ancient Jebusite Mount Zion encompassed all of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount.
Upon this hilly range of sacred land, Scripture shows a rich heritage of God’s redemptive work even before the name Zion surfaced. There, Abraham agreed to do the unthinkable; he bound his only son and prepared to sacrifice him, having faith that God would instead, “provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:1-24). On this mountain, Jacob had his dream that allowed him to climb to Heaven (Genesis 28:11-1). David purchased the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite and sacrificed oxen to atone for his sin on this mountain (1 Chronicles 21:14-18). And it’s there that Solomon built the magnificent temple of the Lord (2 Chron 3:1).
These divinely orchestrated victories were just a warmup and foreshadowing of miraculous events to come on this hill. When Zion got its name it also inherited a much larger identity based on a Davidic covenant that would transform this temporal mountain into an eternal city (Psalm 89:3-4, 29, 35-37; 132:11-18)
This covenant becomes key in our understanding of the true significance of Mount Zion and all it stands for. Michael Lawrence puts it this way in What Is the Davidic Covenant? “When God establishes the covenant with the nation of Israel, he establishes himself as king. Israel is to have no other king other than God. But in the law itself, God makes provision for the day in which they will have a human king, a king who would not replace God, but represent God to the people. That comes to fulfillment with King David.”
What Does the Bible Say About Mount Zion?
The word Zion appears 152 times in the Old Testament, seven times in the New Testament, and is not only used to describe the mountain. The Bible describes Zion as:
The City of David (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Kings 8:1, 1 Chronicles 11:5)
The city of Jerusalem (Isaiah 33:20, Isaiah 40:9, Psalm 51:18)
The entire Jewish nation (Isaiah 33:14, Zechariah 9:13)
The Millennial Jerusalem (Joel 2:32, Isaiah 2:2-3)
The eternal or Heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22, Micah 4:7, Isaiah 35:10)
Scripture is also full of powerful, poetic verses that give us a clue about the source of Mount Zion’s vitality and true beauty:
“Great is the Lord, and most worthy of praise, in the city of our God, his holy mountain. Beautiful in its loftiness, the joy of the whole earth, like the heights of Zaphon is Mount Zion, the city of the Great King. God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress” (Psalm 48:1-3).
Why Is Mount Zion Important?
Mount Zion is not just an important historical and spiritual landmark for Israel. From the time the ark of the covenant was moved into the City of David, then later to the temple that Solomon built, Zion became a hub of worship that represented the presence of God
