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Mount Zion (Hebrew: הַר צִיּוֹן, Har Ṣīyyōn; Arabic: جبل صهيون, Jabal Sahyoun) is a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City.
14 sty 2023 · Mount Zion is located at the bottom of the map above between the squares N4 and P7. Directions and Parking. For detailed directions, check my guide to the Old City Of Jerusalem. In that guide, I mentioned different ways of reaching the Old City. And now, I want to show the way from HaPa’amon Garden (one of the cheap parking lots near the Old City).
Zion, in the Old Testament, the easternmost of the two hills of ancient Jerusalem. It was the site of the Jebusite city captured by David, king of Israel and Judah, in the 10th century bce (2 Samuel 5:6–9) and established by him as his royal capital. Some scholars believe that the name also.
Mount Zion is a hill in Jerusalem just outside the walls of the Old City. The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David and later for the Temple Mount.
Isaiah 4:5 Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
Jerusalem's seven hills are Mount Scopus, Mount Olivet (Mount of Olives) and the Mount of Corruption (all three are peaks in a mountain ridge that lies east of the old city), Mount Ophel, the original Mount Zion, the New Mount Zion and the hill on which the Antonia Fortress was built.
Map: 31°46'18"N, 35°13'43"E. Jerusalem. Mount Zion, crowned by the Dormition Abbey (© Deror Avi) Mount Zion, the highest point in ancient Jerusalem, is the broad hill south of the Old City’s Armenian Quarter.
