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Why is Jerusalem sometimes referred to as the “City of Sorrows”?

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a lot of people died there

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a war happened at least a 10 centuries after god created the world and more people died and after the war who ever lived moved far far away from it and never returned

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Jerusalem is sometimes referred to as the "City of Sorrows" because many people died in a war during biblical times, and a lot of families left after the war. The babilonians also took over the city and sent Jews into exile.

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