“ Thus the people of Jerusalem are spoken of as “the daughter of Zion” (Isaiah i. 8) , the name being often personified and idealized, especially in Isaiah ii., and in the Psalter, e.g. Ps. lxxxvii. 5, “Every one calls Zion his mother.”
See G. A. Smith, Jerusalem (London, 1908) .
↑ Christians of the 4th century removed the name to the S.W. hill, and this tradition has persisted until modern times, when archaeological and topographical evidence has re-identified Sion with the E. hill. ”