Example: Micah 4:8 - "וְאַתָּה מִגְדַּל־עֵדֶר עֹפֶל בַּת־צִיּוֹן עָדֶיךָ תֵּאתֶה וּבָאָה הַמֶּמְשָׁלָה הָרִאשֹׁנָה מַמְלֶכֶת לְבַת־יְרוּשָׁלָיִם" ("And you, O tower of the flock [מִגְדַּל־עֵדֶר], the stronghold of the daughter of Zion, to you shall it come, even the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.")
Biblical writers reuse that northern-mountain language for Zion and for arrogant kings.
In the Hebrew Bible the same northern-mountain language is reused for Zion.
Psalm 48:2–3 (JPS Tanakh 1917 numbering) sets Mount Zion beside yarkĕtê ṣāp̱ôn.
Fair in situation, the joy of the whole earth;Even mount Zion, the uttermost parts of the north,The city of the great King.
The psalm claims Zion as the true divine peak.
They seat Yahweh’s kingship on Zion instead.
In the Hebrew Bible the same northern-mountain language is reused for Zion and for arrogant kings.
Psalm 48:2–3 places Mount Zion beside the “uttermost parts of the north” (ṣāp̱ôn).
8 Who has ever heard of such things?Who has ever seen things like this?Can a country be born in a dayor a nation be brought forth in a moment?Yet no sooner is Zion in laborthan she gives birth to her children.
For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children."
This includes the most important church in Ethiopia, the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, which many believe holds the Ark of the Covenant.
2 Then Solomon summoned to Jerusalem the elders of Israel, all the heads of the tribes and the chiefs of the Israelite families, to bring up the ark of the Lord YHWH’s covenant from Zion, the City of David. 3 And all the Israelites came together to the king at the time of the festival in the seventh month.