Zion

Zion was the Jebusite hill-fortress David captured in Jerusalem; the name grew to mean Jerusalem, God's people and heaven, became the goal of a national movement in the 1890s, the Mormons' gathering place in America and the Rastafarians' promised land in Jamaica.

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