“ Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite” (2 Chronicles 3:1). Jerusalem in the Bible: King Solomon, and the TempleĪfter David’s death, and as Solomon begins building the Temple, the Bible begins connecting the dots. This was the home they had been looking for and David’s heart began dreaming of building a house for God. David declared “ This is the house of the LORD God, and this is the altar of burnt offering for Israel” (1 Chronicles 22:1). After David prepared the sacrifice, for the first time in Israelite history, fire descended from Heaven and devoured the sacrifice. At the word of the Lord, David went to Ornan’s threshing floor to build an altar and to call on the Lord. In 1 Chronicles 21, David had sinned by numbering the people and a devastating plague was released on Israel. Even then, they still had not found this “place” that Moses spoke of - or maybe they had. David conquered Jerusalem, and established it as the seat of power in Israel. Jerusalem’s significance to King Davidįour-hundred years later, in the time of David, Israel still viewed their many battles as fulfilling what Moses and Joshua had told them to do. It became known simply as “the place” where God was taking them. Throughout the time in the desert, Moses kept speaking of this unique location, what it would be like and what God wanted them to do there.
God was bringing them to the “mountain” of His inheritance and the place where He dwells. “You will bring them and plant them in the mountain of Your inheritance, The place, O Lord, which You have made for Your dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established. Soon Moses began speaking about this specific and unique location that God had promised to bring them to. When God delivered Israel from Egypt, they were on their way to live in this land of promise. Jerusalem’s significance to Abrahamĥ00 years later, all of Israel knew of, and dreamed of, this land promised to their forefather, Abraham. In Hebrew, Moriah means “seen of Yahweh.” Quite literally, God said to Abraham “go to the land that “I am looking at” and there I will show you a specific mountain.” We all know what happened when they got there. He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” (Genesis 22:2). In Genesis, God spoke to Abraham to take Isaac to a particular place within Canaan.
It is easy to find Jerusalem in the Bible, starting at the beginning.
This choosing began long before Jerusalem was a city. There is only reason that this city has seen such spiritual and physical conflict since the beginning of time God Himself has chosen this earthly city to dwell in and to establish His name among men. With over 800 references to Jerusalem in the Bible, one can learn a lot about it. While believers revere Jerusalem’s significance as the city where Jesus walked, was crucified and rose from the dead, it was valuable to the Lord long before the time of Jesus. There is no city on earth that can compare in value to Jerusalem. Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, and went away again beyond Jordan (River) into the place where John at first baptized: and there he (Jesus) abode.Israel Sites Significant Jerusalem Biblical History But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
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Īnd Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost (Spirit) returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, being forty days tempted of the devil.Īnd they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all men come to him. Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.Īnd he (John the Baptist) came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea.
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