18 Bible Verses about Names For Jerusalem

And it was told king David, saying, The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that pertains unto him, because of the ark of God. So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-edom into the city of David with gladness.

Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

For they call themselves after the holy city, and anchor themselves upon the God of Israel; The LORD of hosts is his name.

Awake, awake; put on your strength, O Zion; put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for no longer, there shall no more come into you the uncircumcised and the unclean.

Then the devil took him up into the holy city, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple,

And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.

There is a river, the streams of which shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacle of the most High.

[A song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.] Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness.

Glorious things are spoken of you, O city of God. Selah.

As we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it forever. Selah.

And I will restore your judges as at the first, and your counselors as at the beginning: afterward you shall be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.

Thus says the LORD; I have returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts, the holy mountain.

The sons also of them that afflicted you shall come bending low unto you; and all they that despised you shall bow themselves down at the soles of your feet; and they shall call you, The city of the LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.

All that pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely: and this is his name by which he shall be called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.

In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely: and this is the name by which it shall be called, The LORD our righteousness.

It was all around eighteen thousand cubits by measure: and the name of the city from that day shall be, The LORD is there.

Woe to Ariel, to Ariel, the city where David dwelt! add year to year; let feasts run their cycle.