Zion, in the Old Testament,the easternmost of the two hills of ancient Jerusalem. ... It appears to be a pre-Israelite Canaanite name of the hill upon which Jerusalem was built; the name “mountain of Zion” is common. In biblical usage, however, “Mount Zion” often means the city ...
Jerusalem congregation does its part to help Sderot residents recoverEHUD ZION WALDOKS
26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother. 27For it is written: “Be glad, barren woman, you who never bore a child; shout for joy and cry aloud, you who were never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a ...
The term "rock of the field" is applied in Jeremiah 17:3; Jeremiah 21:13 to Jerusalem, but there is no reason why it should not be used of Lebanon or any other mountain soaring above the plain. The notion that the prophet spoke of the brook Gihon on Mount Zion, as fed, by an ...
Whether it was destroyed, captured, or hidden–nobody knows. One of the most famous claims about the Ark's whereabouts is that before the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem, it had found its way toEthiopia, where it still resides in the town of Aksum, in the St. Mary of Zion cathedral. ...
And He will be a sanctuary—but to both houses of Israel a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, to the dwellers of Jerusalem a trap and a snare. / Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”1 Peter 2:8and, “A stone ...
“The apple of my eye” is a Hebrew idiom. I found this explanation both beautiful and powerful. “The apple of my eye has been translated from ba vat ey no’."It’s explained here by theJerusalem Prayer Team: “‘ba•vat ey•no,’ expresses the most precious and the dearest thin...
as I see the desperate plight of my people. Little children and tiny babies are fainting and dying in the streets. What can I say about you? Who has ever seen such sorrow? O daughter of Jerusalem, to what can I compare your anguish? O virgin daughter of Zion,...
“Boaz, the name of our hero, also happens to be the name of one of two pillars that sat athwart the entranceway of the Temple in Jerusalem.”[vi]Then, he connects this temple allusion to the later incident at the threshing floor where Ruth asks Boaz to spread his robe over her.[...
In the Americas the resurrected Jesus taught the Nephites then same lesson he had taught his disciples in Jerusalem: “Behold the fowls of the air, for they sow not, neither do they reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?…Con...