Editing Mount Zion (section)

===Upper Eastern Hill (Temple Mount)===
Once the [[Temple in Jerusalem#First or Solomon.27s Temple|First Temple]] was erected at the top of the Eastern Hill, the name "Mount Zion" migrated there too.<ref name=Pixner/>

After the conquest of the Jebusite city, its built-up area expanded northward towards the uppermost part of the same, Eastern Hill. This highest part became the site of [[Solomon's Temple]].

The identification of the pre-Israelite (Jebusite) and Israelite towns on the Eastern Hill is based on the existence of only one perennial water source in the area, the [[Gihon Spring]], and on archaeological excavations revealing sections of the Bronze Age and Iron Age city walls and water systems.<ref name=Pixner/><ref name=Harel193>{{cite book |title=This is Jerusalem |author=Menashe Harel |publisher=Canaan Publishing |location=Jerusalem |year=1977 |page=193 }}</ref>

The "Mount Zion" mentioned in the later parts of the [[Book of Isaiah]] ({{bibleverse|Isaiah|60:14}}), in the [[Book of Psalms]], and the [[First Book of Maccabees]] (c. 2nd century BCE; {{bibleverse|1 Maccabees|4:36-38}}) seems to refer to the top of the hill, generally known as the [[Temple Mount]].<ref name=Pixner/>