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Definitions of zion in various dictionaries:
noun - originally a stronghold captured by David (the 2nd king of the Israelites)
noun - Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean
noun - an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal
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In Psalms "We wept, when we remembered" this, also preceding a "Crossroads" near Charlottesville, Virginia |
Israel, as a symbol of the Jewish people, is sometimes referred to by this name |
The Great White Throne, a flat-topped monolith, rises about 2,400 feet above this Utah park's canyon floor |
Here's Angel's Landing in this end-of-the-alphabetUtah park |
Celebrating "a century of sanctuary" in 2009, it's Utah's first national park, though it's last alphabetically |
In Utah: North Guardian Angel, the West Temple, the Altar of Sacrifice |
Z:It's the only national park that fits the bill |
...of U.S. National Parks (& please don't get "Y"s with us) |
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Zion (Hebrew: îyn, modern Tsiyyon; also transliterated Sion, Sayon, Syon, Tzion, Tsion) is a placename often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the biblical Land of Israel as a whole. The word is first found in 2 Samuel 5:7 which dates from c. 630540 BCE according to modern scholarship. It originally referred to a specific hill in Jerusalem (Mount Zion), located to the south of Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount). Mount Zion held a Jebusite fortress of the same name that was conquered by David and was re-named the City of David; see Names of Jerusalem. That specific hill ("mount") is one of the many squat hills that form Jerusalem, which also includes Mount Moriah (the Temple Mount), the Mount of Olives, etc. Over many centuries, until as recently as the Ottoman era, the city walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt many times in new locations, so that the particular hill known as Mount Zion is no longer inside the city wall, but its location is now just outside the portion of the Old |