As a mother consoles a child, so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

Anyone from his people among you (may his God be with him!) may go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and may build the temple of the Lord God of Israel – he is the God who is in Jerusalem.

Because they were unfaithful to the Lord, in King Rehoboam’s fifth year, King Shishak of Egypt attacked Jerusalem.

They removed the altars in Jerusalem; they also removed all the incense altars and threw them into the Kidron Valley.

Jerusalem certainly stumbles, Judah falls, for their words and their actions offend the Lord; they rebel against his royal authority.

You who have escaped the sword, go, do not delay. Remember the Lord in a faraway land. Think about Jerusalem.

I asked, “Where are you going?” He replied, “To measure Jerusalem in order to determine its width and its length.”

But you must obey me and set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. If you disobey, I will set the gates of Jerusalem on fire. It will burn down all the fortified dwellings in Jerusalem and no one will be able to put it out.’”

At that time the sovereign master will wash the excrement from Zion’s women, he will rinse the bloodstains from Jerusalem’s midst, as he comes to judge and to bring devastation.

י (Yod) The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dirt on their heads; They have dressed in sackcloth. Jerusalem’s young women stare down at the ground.

David took the head of the Philistine and brought it to Jerusalem, and he put Goliath’s weapons in his tent.

David married more concubines and wives from Jerusalem after he arrived from Hebron. Even more sons and daughters were born to David.

Mephibosheth was living in Jerusalem, for he was a regular guest at the king’s table. But both his feet were crippled.

Now two hundred men had gone with Absalom from Jerusalem. Since they were invited, they went naively and were unaware of what Absalom was planning.

So the king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will take care of you while you are with me in Jerusalem.”

His servants took his body back to Jerusalem and buried him in his tomb with his ancestors in the city of David.

His body was carried back by horses and he was buried in Jerusalem with his ancestors in the city of David.

But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah’s reign, such a Passover of the Lord was observed in Jerusalem.

Jehozadak went into exile when the Lord sent the people of Judah and Jerusalem into exile by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar.