David, in fear, carried the Ark aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, instead of carrying it on to Zion, and there it stayed three months ( 2 Samuel 6: 1-11 ; 1 Chronicles 13: 1-13 ).

" Psalm 2: " Yet I set my Holy king / On My Holy hill of Zion ," which is identified by them as Jesus Christ.

if things continue the way they are ... the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war ... ( quoted in Wrestling with Zion, Grove Press, 2003 PB, p. 16 )

Psalm 87: 2 states The Lord loveth the gates of Zion ; Joel 3: 17 states I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain.

The Cenacle on Mount Zion, claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and Pentecost.

On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, " girded with a linen ephod ," " danced before the Lord with all his might " and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal ( 2 Sam.

The Struthion Pool lay in the path of the northern decumanus, so Hadrian placed vaulting over it, added a large pavement on top, and turned it into a secondary Forum ; the pavement can still be seen under the Convent of the Sisters of Zion.

“ For the day of the Lord upon all the nations is near … But on Mount Zion there shall be deliverance ”

Zion ( meaning the Temple ) will be rebuilt, but by God, and based not on violence and corruption but on the desire to learn God's laws and live in peace.

Judea and Zion were rejected because, according to the partition plan, Jerusalem ( Zion ) and most of Judean mountains would be outside the new state.

This may be interpreted as meaning that, following the restoration of the Sanhedrin and the line of ordained scholars, the work will be completed and " out of Zion shall go the Law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem ".

After a Requiem Mass, Schindler was buried at the Catholic Franciscans ' cemetery on Mount Zion, the only member of the Nazi Party to be honoured in this way.

Zion would be the ultimate paradise for Rastas.

They teach that Africa, in particular Ethiopia, is where Zion, or paradise, shall be created.

The Cenacle on Mount Zion, claimed to be the location of the Last Supper and Pentecost.

According to the Books of Chronicles chapter 9 line 2, the Israelites, who took part in The Return to Zion are from the Tribe of Judah alongside the Tribe of Simeon that was absorbed into it, the Tribe of Benjamin, the Tribe of Levi ( Levites and Priests ) alongside the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, which according to the Book of Kings 2 Chapter 7 were exiled by the Assyrians ( The Biblical scholars Umberto Cassuto and Elia Samuele Artom claim these two tribes ' names to be a reference to the remant of all Ten Tribes that was not exiled and absorbed into the Judean population ).

Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, planned the layout in the " Plat of the City of Zion " ( intended as a template for Mormon towns wherever they might be built ).

The Soviets envisaged setting up a new " Soviet Zion ", where a proletarian Jewish culture could be developed.

Traditionally Ethiopian emperors were crowned at the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum, the site of the chapel in which is kept what is believed to be the Ark of the Covenant, in order to validate the new emperor's legitimacy by reinforcing his claim to descent from Menelik I, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is believed to have brought the Ark from Jerusalem to Axum.

This can mean that Zion can be anywhere, but when God referred to Jackson County as Zion he also told Joseph that this land would be the New Jerusalem.

Also, Jah is referenced many times in Damian Marley's song Road to Zion and in the songs of Costa Rican singer, Noah, such as " If you don't believe in Jah, we can not be together " It also appears in Gregory Isaac's Night Nurse, " Only you can quench this Jah thirst.

On the morning of June 21, 1964, the three men set out for Philadelphia, Neshoba County, where they were to investigate the recent burning of Mount Zion Methodist Church, a black church that had agreed to be a site for a Relign School for education and voter registration.

In July that year, Adolphus was killed by lightning and thus became the first man to be buried in the graveyard behind the current Zion Episcopal Church.

Zion was surprised when Roy's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.

In 1481, an Italian Jewish pilgrim, Rabbi Meshulam Da Volterra, wrote: " And all the community of Jews, every year, goes up to Mount Zion on the day of Tisha B ' Av to fast and mourn, and from there they move down along Yoshafat Valley and up to Mount of Olives.

While on the one hand Selassie's crowning was seen as the second coming, and events such as the Second Italo-Ethiopian War were seen as fulfillments of biblical and specifically Revelation prophecy there is also expectation that Selassie will call a day of judgment, when he will bring home the lost children of Israel ( the black peoples taken out of Africa during the slave trade ) to live with him in peace, love and harmony in the Mount Zion in Africa.

Eusebius comments that Golgotha was in his day ( the 4th century ) pointed out north of Mount Zion.

When Gregory of Tours in De gloria martyri avers that the thorns in the Crown still looked green, a freshness which was miraculously renewed each day, he does not much strengthen the historical authenticity of a relic he had not seen, but the Breviarius, and the itinerary of Antoninus of Piacenza ( 6th century ) clearly state that the Crown of Thorns was currently shown in the church on Mount Zion.

Following purchase of the land, the first modern-day settlements were created after the American Zion Commonwealth founded the modern day city of Afula and the swamp was drained.

Dowie had progressive views on race relations for his day and welcomed blacks into his church, of whom some 200 settled in Zion.

He sent a company to Hallsville the next day that fought a State Guard detachment under the command of Col. Caleb Dorsey and, in a 10 minute skirmish about one half mile north of Mount Zion Church, itself situated about 3 miles southeast of Hallsville and 15 miles northeast of Columbia.

Epiphany Davis, a laborer and trustee of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, bought 12 lots for $ 578 the same day.

Numerous churches and denominations currently observe the second Sunday in June including the African Methodist Episcopal Church, African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

* john Felstiner " Writing Zion " Paul Celan and Yehuda Amichai: An Exchange between Two Great Poets, The New Republic, 5 June 2006

In June 2007, Skafish joined the air staff of WDRV Chicago ( 97. 1fm Chicago, WWDV 96. 9fm Zion ).

Zion " – article from the May / June 1990 issue of Biblical Archaeological Review

On 26 June 2009, the Italian press claimed that Abune Paulos along with a claimed son of Prince Makonnen and Duke Amedeo d ' Aosta, would come forward at the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome with the announcement that the true Ark of the covenant, which has supposedly been kept in secret at St. Mary's of Zion in Ethiopia, would be unveiled to the public to view for the first time in history in a museum being built in Axum.

Zion has released a solo album entitled The Perfect Melody on June 5, 2007, with appearances by artists such as Akon and Play-n-Skillz.

William found a stable parsonage at the St. Thomas A. M. E. Zion in 1910, where Robeson would fill in for his father during sermons when he was called away.

Administration of the park was conducted from neighboring Zion Canyon National Park until 1956, when Bryce Canyon's first superintendent started work.

Between 1948 and 1967, when Jordanian authorities refused permission to Jews to enter the Old City of Jerusalem, Jews made pilgrimages to rooftops on Mount Zion and prayed towards the site of the ancient Holy of Holies.

The first settlement in what is today St. John was made in 1875 when William Bickerton of the Church of Jesus Christ founded a religious colony named Zion Valley.

The modern intertwining of Jamaican religion and music can be traced back to the 1860s, when the Pocomania and Revival Zion churches drew on African traditions, and incorporated music into almost every facet of worship.

The poem about Avalon that Corwin quotes to Ganelon alludes to both Psalm 137 (" By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion ") as well as to a classic nursery rhyme (" How many miles to Babylon?

Gains were also made from the Bund ( General Jewish Labor Union ) when a faction led by Aleksander Minc joined and also from two smaller Jewish Socialist groups Poalei Zion and the United Jewish Socialist Workers Party ( Fareynikhte ).

In Russia, under the Tsarist regime, antisemitism intensified in the early years of the 20th century and was given official favour when the secret police forged the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a document purported to be a transcription of a plan by Jewish elders to achieve global domination.

However, when they failed to live the Law of Consecration, which was a promise to voluntarily give all their property to the community for equal distribution, Joseph Smith received a revelation that God would build Zion later, when the people were ready.

Both the Community of Christ and the LDS Church have come to understand Zion as primarily a community way of life that is centered around Jesus Christ, but many people still believe that, when they are ready, they will be able to build the literal city of Zion as well.

Zikhron Ya ' akov was founded in December 1882 when 100 Jewish pioneers from Romania, members of the Hovevei Zion movement, purchased land in Zammarin.

From when Zion became a National Park ( 1919 ), tourists were guided up the Narrows on horseback well into the 1960s.

This debate concluded on July 30, 1822 when James Varick was ordained the first bishop of the AME Zion church.

Zion Church remained in active use from 1875 through 1933, when a new church ( now the Chapel ) was built to serve the growing congregation of 100 parishioners, under the leadership of the Rev.

Since the Quorum of the Twelve and the First Quorum of the Seventy had not yet been organized, this meant that there was a short period of time — from July 3, 1834, until February 14, 1835 — when the High Council in Zion stood in an administrative position next to the First Presidency.

The fourth is of a woman mourning for her only son, who is transformed into a city when she hears of the desolation of Zion.

According to a revelation given by Joseph Smith Jr., Independence would be the " centerplace " of the City of Zion when Jesus returned.

The " LDS Cinema " movement began around 1999, when Richard Dutcher's company Zion Films released God's Army commercially.