Biblical places
Jerusalem
Once the Jebusite stronghold of Jebus, conquered by David and made the City of David and capital of the united kingdom of Israel — later the spiritual center where Solomon's temple was built.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Jerusalem
- 31.7683, 35.2137
The two sources' coordinates agree; the specific City of David site is separately identified at 31.7736, 35.2356.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Joshua 10:1
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
Judges 1:7
And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
1 Samuel 17:54
And David took the head of the Philistine, and brought it to Jerusalem; but he put his armour in his tent.
2 Samuel 5:5
In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.
1 Kings 2:11
And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 8:17
Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.
1 Chronicles 3:4
These six were born unto him in Hebron; and there he reigned seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years.
2 Chronicles 1:4
But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjathjearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.
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