Zechariah 8:3

holy mountain

Holiness, Sanctification, Summary:

In the Old Testament the words consecration, dedication, sanctification, and holiness are various renderings of one Hebrew word, are used of persons and of things, and have an identical meaning, that is, set apart for God. Only when used of God himself (for example (Leviticus 11:45), or of the holy angels (for example (Daniel 4:13) is any inward; (Leviticus 11:45); (Daniel 4:13) moral quality necessarily implied. Doubtless a priest or other person set apart to the service of God, whose whole will and desire went with his setting apart, experienced progressively an inner detachment from evil; but that aspect is distinctively of the New Testament, not of the Old Testament (Matthew 4:5).