The Jerusalem Bible (Standard Edition)

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Demographics and the Jewish-Arab population divide play a major role in the dispute over Jerusalem. In 1998, the Jerusalem Development Authority expanded city limits to the west to include more areas heavily populated with Jews. [16] Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” ( Genesis 22:2) Throughout the time in the desert, Moses kept speaking of this unique location, what it would be like and what God wanted them to do there. It became known simply as “the place” where God was taking them. When the Assyrians conquered the Kingdom of Israel in 722 BCE, Jerusalem was strengthened by a great influx of refugees from the northern kingdom. When Hezekiah ruled, Jerusalem had no fewer than 25,000 inhabitants and covered 25 acres (10 hectares). [106]

The war of 1948 resulted in the division of Jerusalem, so that the old walled city lay entirely on the Jordanian side of the line. A no-man's land between East and West Jerusalem came into being in November 1948: Moshe Dayan, commander of the Israeli forces in Jerusalem, met with his Jordanian counterpart Abdullah el-Tell in a deserted house in Jerusalem's Musrara neighbourhood and marked out their respective positions: Israel's position in red and Jordan's in green. This rough map, which was not meant as an official one, became the final line in the 1949 Armistice Agreements, which divided the city and left Mount Scopus as an Israeli exclave inside East Jerusalem. [218] Barbed wire and concrete barriers ran down the centre of the city, passing close by Jaffa Gate on the western side of the old walled city, and a crossing point was established at Mandelbaum Gate slightly to the north of the old walled city. Military skirmishes frequently threatened the ceasefire. While the international community regards East Jerusalem, including the entire Old City, as part of the occupied Palestinian territories, neither part, West or East Jerusalem, is recognized as part of the territory of Israel or the State of Palestine. [258] [259] [260] [261] Under the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1947, Jerusalem was envisaged to become a corpus separatum administered by the United Nations. In the war of 1948, the western part of the city was occupied by forces of the nascent state of Israel, while the eastern part was occupied by Jordan. The international community largely considers the legal status of Jerusalem to derive from the partition plan, and correspondingly refuses to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the city. [262] Status under Israeli ruleFurther information: History of Jerusalem during the Kingdom of Jerusalem Medieval illustration of capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade, 1099. Shalim or Shalem was the name of the god of dusk in the Canaanite religion, whose name is based on the same root S-L-M from which the Hebrew word for "peace" is derived ( Shalom in Hebrew, cognate with Arabic Salam). [45] [46] The name thus offered itself to etymologizations such as "The City of Peace", [43] [47] "Abode of Peace", [48] [49] "Dwelling of Peace" ("founded in safety"), [50] or "Vision of Peace" in some Christian authors. [51] In 538 BCE, the Persian King Cyrus the Great invited the Jews of Babylon to return to Judah to rebuild the Temple. [121] [122] Construction of the Second Temple was completed in 516 BCE, during the reign of Darius the Great, 70 years after the destruction of the First Temple. [123] [124]

In 2005, 2,850 new immigrants settled in Jerusalem, mostly from the United States, France and the former Soviet Union. In terms of the local population, the number of outgoing residents exceeds the number of incoming residents. In 2005, 16,000 left Jerusalem and only 10,000 moved in. [334] Nevertheless, the population of Jerusalem continues to rise due to the high birth rate, especially in the Haredi Jewish and Arab communities. Consequently, the total fertility rate in Jerusalem (4.02) is higher than in Tel Aviv (1.98) and well above the national average of 2.90. The average size of Jerusalem's 180,000 households is 3.8 people. [334] The change of metaphors into more modern language often changes their meaning more than what was intended In Hebrew, Moriah means “seen by Yahweh”. So, quite literally, God said to Abraham “go to the land that ‘ I am looking at‘ and there I will show you a specific mountain.” And we all know what happened when they got there. In 1 Chronicles 21, David had sinned by numbering the people, and a devastating plague was released on Israel. At the word of the Lord, David went to Ornan’s threshing floor to build an altar and to call on the Lord. There is only reason that this city has seen such spiritual and physical conflict since the beginning of time. That is, God Himself has chosen this earthly city to dwell in and to establish His name among men.

The Old Testament was translated to reflect Jewish interpretations of the text. The problem for some here is prophecies that were later seen to be about Christ.Some think their translation should always reflect this; others that they should be translated in such a way as the original audience might have understoodthem.

This was the home they had been looking for and David’s heart began dreaming of building a house for God. Like most of his royal successors in Judah, Solomon was born, lived, reigned, died, and was buried at Jerusalem ( 2 Sam 12:24; 1 Kings 11:42, 43; 2 Chron 1:13; 9:30; cf. Song of Solomon 3:3), Solomon considered Jerusalem as a standard of perfection ( Song of Solomon 6:4). He conducted his Egyp. bride into this Davidic city, until he had built her a palace of her own ( 1 Kings 3:1); he sacrificed before God’s Ark in Jerusalem ( v. 15); and he left it for his initial act of dedication to Yahweh and his resultant acquisition of divine wisdom only because the Mosaic Tabernacle had not yet been moved down from Gibeon, six m. to the N ( 1 Kings 3:4; 2 Chron 1:3-6). Judah, to Jehu’s revolt, 841. Upon Solomon’s death in 930, and the refusal at Shechem of northern Israel to accept Rehoboam’s kingship, the latter fled to Jerusalem and sought to raise troops to subdue Ephraim ( 1 Kings 12:18, 21); but God forbade it. Rehoboam was forced to content himself with defensive measures ( 2 Chron 11:5-12). Immediately after his own accession in the N, Jeroboam prohibited further pilgrimages to Jerusalem by members of the ten tribes ( 1 Kings 12:27, 28), though as a result many of the Levites emigrated S, strengthening the religious position of Jerusalem. Northern secular support for Rehoboam came to an end in three years ( 2 Chron 11:14-17). Water supply has always been a major problem in Jerusalem, as attested to by the intricate network of ancient aqueducts, tunnels, pools and cisterns found in the city. [314]What kind of translation?Formal equivalence –literal, staying close to the original sentence structure but changing it where meaning is compromised Further information: Jerusalem Subdistrict, Mandatory Palestine William McLean's 1918 plan was the first urban planning scheme for Jerusalem. It laid the foundations for what became West Jerusalem and East Jerusalem. [205] Jerusalem on VE Day, 8 May 1945