Bible Reading: Second half of Part 7. From Olive Tree

“Before Israel’s entry into Canaan, scripture predicted that God would appoint a place in Israel where he would “cause his name to dwell” (Deut. 12:11) and later affirms that Jerusalem had become this chosen place (1 Kings 11:36). Jerusalem was originally established by a Canaanite people called the Jebusites (Josh. 15:8, 63). The first explicit reference to the city in the Bible is in the accounts of Joshua’s campaign to conquer Canaan and describes that its King, Adoni-Zekek, was killed by Joshua along with four other local kings (Josh. 10:1, 26). However the city may be mentioned even earlier, since the mysterious priest-king Melchizedek who visited Abraham in Genesis 14 is described as the king of Salem (“peace”), which may be an early name for Jerusalem (“foundation of peace”) (Gen. 14:18; cf. Hebrews 7).” Sent from Bible Study