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Mount Zion is a hill in Jerusalem located just outside the walls of the Old City to the south. The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David and later for the Templ
Mt Zion from Abu Tor
View of Mount Zion from the Mount of Olives
View of Mount Zion from west
David's Tomb on Mount Zion
Zion
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Zion is a placename in the Tanakh, often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole.
Mount Zion
…as the name of ancient Jerusalem's Western Hill. In a wider sense, the term Zion is also used for the entire Land of Israel. The etymology of the word Zion is uncertain. Mentioned in the Bible in the Book of Samuel (2 Samuel 5:7) as the name of the Jebusite fortress conquered by King David, its origin…
Zion (1903), Ephraim Moses Lilien
A World War I recruitment poster. The Daughter of Zion (representing the Hebrew people): "Your Old New Land must have you! Join the Jewish regiment."
Abbey of the Dormition on the modern Mount Zion.