Psalm 87:1

New Century Version

The Lord built Jerusalem on the holy mountain.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 3:1

Then Solomon began to build the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah. This was where the Lord had appeared to David, Solomon’s father. Solomon built the Temple on the place David had prepared on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

Psalm 121:1

I look up to the hills, but where does my help come from?

Psalm 122:2

Jerusalem, we are standing at your gates.

Psalm 42:1

As a deer thirsts for streams of water, so I thirst for you, God.

Psalm 68:16

Why do you mountains with many peaks look with envy on the mountain that God chose for his home? The Lord will live there forever.

Psalm 78:69

And he built his Temple high like the mountains. Like the earth, he built it to last forever.

Isaiah 14:32

What shall we tell the messengers from Philistia? Say that the Lord has made Jerusalem strong and that his poor people will go there for safety.

Isaiah 28:16

Because of these things, this is what the Lord God says: “I will put a stone in the ground in Jerusalem, a tested stone. Everything will be built on this important and precious rock. Anyone who trusts in it will never be disappointed.

Isaiah 56:7

I will bring these people to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. The offerings and sacrifices they place on my altar will please me, because my Temple will be called a house for prayer for people from all nations.”

Zechariah 8:3

This is what the Lord says: “I will return to Jerusalem and live in it. Then it will be called the City of Truth, and the mountain of the Lord All-Powerful will be called the Holy Mountain.”

Matthew 16:18

So I tell you, you are Peter. On this rock I will build my church, and the power of death will not be able to defeat it.

2 Peter 1:18

We heard that voice from heaven while we were with Jesus on the holy mountain.