"On Zion, my sacred hill," he says, "I have installed my king."

Sing praise to the LORD, who rules in Zion! Tell every nation what he has done!

People of God, walk around Zion and count the towers;

O God, be kind to Zion and help her; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

more than any other place in Israel he loves the city of Jerusalem.

The LORD has chosen Zion; he wants to make it his home:

Let everyone who lives in Zion shout and sing! Israel's holy God is great, and he lives among his people."

The LORD says to his people, "I will come to Jerusalem to defend you and to save all of you that turn from your sins.

and their people will say, "Let us go up the hill of the LORD, to the Temple of Israel's God. He will teach us what he wants us to do; we will walk in the paths he has chosen. For the LORD's teaching comes from Jerusalem; from Zion he speaks to his people."

that the scripture speaks of: "Look, I place in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall. But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."

Instead, you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, with its thousands of angels.

Then I looked, and there was the Lamb standing on Mount Zion; with him were 144,000 people who have his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.

After capturing the fortress, David lived in it and named it "David's City." He built the city around it, starting at the place where land was filled in on the east side of the hill.

So he decided not to take it with him to Jerusalem; instead, he turned off the road and took it to the house of Obed Edom, a native of the city of Gath.

David died and was buried in David's City.

Solomon made an alliance with the king of Egypt by marrying his daughter. He brought her to live in David's City until he had finished building his palace, the Temple, and the wall around Jerusalem.

Then King Solomon summoned all the leaders of the tribes and clans of Israel to come to him in Jerusalem in order to take the LORD's Covenant Box from Zion, David's City, to the Temple.

Because David went to live in the fortress, it came to be called "David's City."

Then King Solomon summoned all the leaders of the tribes and clans of Israel to assemble in Jerusalem, in order to take the LORD's Covenant Box from Zion, David's City, to the Temple.

They buried him in the royal tombs in David's City in recognition of the service he had done for the people of Israel, for God, and for the Temple.