Psalm 87:2

Zion, The City Of God

¹ His foundation is on the holy mountain.
² 
The Lord loves the gates of Zion
More than all the dwellings of Jacob (Israel).
³
Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God [Jerusalem]. Selah.

Israel

Jacob

Jehovah

Zion

Deuteronomy 12:5

But you shall seek the Lord at the place which the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to establish His Name there for His dwelling [place], and there you shall come [to worship Him].

2 Chronicles 6:6

but I have chosen Jerusalem that My Name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’

Psalm 78:67-69

Moreover, He rejected the tent of Joseph,
And did not choose the tribe of Ephraim [in which the tabernacle stood].

Psalm 132:13-14

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His dwelling place:

Isaiah 14:32

“Then what answer will one give the messengers of the [Philistine] nation?
That the Lord has founded Zion,
And the afflicted of His people will seek and find refuge in it.”

Joel 2:32

“And it shall come about that whoever calls on the name of the Lord
Will be saved [from the coming judgment]
For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem
There will be those who escape,
As the Lord has said,
Even among the remnant [of survivors] whom the Lord calls.