Quotes About Jerusalem

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His motherís name was Abi, the daughter of Zechariah.

Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Laundererís Field.

But if you say to me, ëWe trust in the LORD our God,í is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ëYou must worship before this altar in Jerusalemí?

Who among all the gods of these lands has delivered his land from my hand? How then can the LORD deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”

“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ëDo not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ëThe Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem fifty-five years. His motherís name was Hephzibah.

Manasseh also built altars in the house of the LORD, of which the LORD had said, “In Jerusalem I will put My Name.”

Manasseh even took the carved Asherah pole he had made and set it up in the temple, of which the LORD had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.

this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ëBehold, I am bringing such calamity upon Jerusalem and Judah that the news will reverberate in the ears of all who hear it.

I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab, and I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes out a bowl—wiping it and turning it upside down.

Moreover, Manasseh shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end, in addition to the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, doing evil in the sight of the LORD.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem two years. His motherís name was Meshullemeth daughter of Haruz; she was from Jotbah.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem thirty-one years. His motherís name was Jedidah daughter of Adaiah; she was from Bozkath.

So Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam, Achbor, Shaphan, and Asaiah went and spoke to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, the keeper of the wardrobe. She lived in Jerusalem, in the Second District.

Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

Josiah also did away with the idolatrous priests ordained by the kings of Judah to burn incense on the high places of the cities of Judah and in the places all around Jerusalem—those who had burned incense to Baal, to the sun and moon, to the constellations, and to all the host of heaven.

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.

On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

But in the eighteenth year of Josiahís reign, this Passover was observed to the LORD in Jerusalem.

For the LORD had said, “I will remove Judah from My sight, just as I removed Israel. I will reject this city Jerusalem, which I chose, and the temple of which I said, ëMy Name shall be there.í”

From Megiddo his servants carried his body in a chariot, brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own tomb. Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah, anointed him, and made him king in place of his father.