Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to you – Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen takes her brood under her wings, and you would not come!
Esther 2:6
(Kish had been carried away from Jerusalem with the exiles who were deported with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon took captive.)
Psalms 18:12
At the radiance before him there passed hailstones and coals of fire.
Psalms 51:18
Do good in your pleasure to Zion, build the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 65:1
It is seemly to praise you, O God, in Zion, and to you shall the vow be performed in Jerusalem.
Psalms 68:14
set with stones, like snow upon Zalmon.”