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Jerusalem

Identified location. The site is known today and most scholars agree on it.

Melchizedek was king of Salem, which tradition takes as Jerusalem. David took "the strong hold of Zion" and made it his city, and Solomon built the temple here. Babylon took it in Jeremiah's day and the exiles rebuilt it. Jesus taught in its temple, and the first believers preached here.

Who passed through

In story order. King James Version.

  1. Melchizedek, Genesis 14:18
    And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.
  2. David, 2 Samuel 5:7
    Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.
  3. Solomon, 2 Chronicles 3:1
    Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
  4. Hezekiah, 2 Kings 18:17
    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
  5. Isaiah, 2 Kings 19:20
    Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
  6. Huldah, 2 Kings 22:14
    So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
  7. Jeremiah, Jeremiah 38:28
    So Jeremiah abode in the court of the prison until the day that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
  8. Zerubbabel, Ezra 3:8
    Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
  9. Joshua the son of Josedech, Ezra 3:8
    Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the Lord.
  10. Nehemiah, Nehemiah 12:26
    These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.
  11. Simeon (the man in Jerusalem), Luke 2:25
    And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
  12. Jesus Christ, Matthew 21:12
    And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,
  13. Pilate, Luke 23:6
    When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilæan.
  14. Peter, Acts 2:14
    But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judæa, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:
  15. Stephen, Acts 6:8
    And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.
  16. James (Brother of Jesus), Acts 21:18
    And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.

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Place names, references and coordinates: STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), with coordinates from OpenBible.info. Map: Natural Earth (public domain).