Cyrus Ingerson Scofield

“ The word is often used of the whole city of Jerusalem considered as the city of God Psalms 48:2,3 especially in passages referring to the future kingdom-age ; Isaiah 1:27; 2:3; 4:1-6; Joel 3:16; Zechariah 1:16,17; 8:3-8; Romans 11:26. In Hebrews 12:22 the word is used symbolically of heaven. (2) In Deuteronomy 4:48 the name is given to a projection or peak of Mount Hermon. ”

“ Zion, the ancient Jebusite stronghold, is the southwest eminence in Jerusalem, called in Scripture the city of David, and associated with the Davidic royalty both historically and prophetically 1 Chronicles 11:7 ”

“ A discrepancy has been imagined in the two accounts, 2 Samuel 24:24,; 1 Chronicles 21:25; 2 Samuel 24:24 records the price of the threshingfloor (heb. goren) ; 1 Chronicles 21:25 of the place (Heb. magom, lit. "home," 1 Samuel 2:20) same word or area on which afterward the great temple, with its spacious courts was built. 2 Chronicles 3:1.
David gave fifty shekels of sliver for the "goren"; six hundred shekels of gold for the "magom." ”