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Zion

Jebusite (Amorites of Canaan) stronghold in Jerusalem captured by King David, and the hill on which he built the Temple, symbol of Jerusalem and of Jewish national life.

Zion

Town in Lake County, northeast Illinois; population (1990) 19,800. It is situated on Lake Michigan, 72 km/45 mi north of Chicago and 5 km/3 mi south of the state border with Wisconsin. Mainly a residential community, it has some industrial development, most notably a nuclear power plant (1973).

The town was founded in 1901 by the Scottish religious leader John Alexander Dowie, who made it the headquarters of his Christian Catholic Church in Zion sect (founded in 1896).

Illinois State Beach Park is along Lake Michigan.



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That part of the city to which our worthy Gizbarim now hastened, and which bore the name of its architect, King David, was esteemed the most strongly fortified district of Jerusalem; being situated upon the steep and lofty hill of Zion.
Poems by Poe, Edgar Allan View in context
We descended to the canon again, and then the guide began to give name and history to every bank and boulder we came to: "This was the Field of Blood; these cuttings in the rocks were shrines and temples of Moloch; here they sacrificed children; yonder is the Zion Gate; the Tyropean Valley, the Hill of Ophel; here is the junction of the Valley of Jehoshaphat--on your right is the Well of Job.
The Innocents Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide; He wales a portion with judicious care; And 'Let us worship God', he says, with solemn air.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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