ye.ru.sha.laim is the proper name of the city reached, inhabited, ruled from, built up, and chosen in the cited narratives.

The term consistently functions as a proper place name: people travel to or return to it, dwell and reign there, gather there, and describe building, threat, or worship in relation to the city. The cited verses also call it the city chosen by the LORD and connect it with the ark, the house of the LORD, and royal rule.

1. Proper name of a city · dominant

   The form is tagged Noun · Proper throughout the cited examples and identifies the location to which David and Israel go in 1 Chronicles 11:4, where David gathers Israel for bringing up the ark in 1 Chronicles 15:3, and where rulers reign in 1 Kings 14:21. In 1 Kings 12:27 the APB renders the clause about going up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD there, while 1 Kings 9:15 renders building activity connected with its wall.

   1 Chronicles 11:41 Chronicles 15:31 Kings 14:211 Kings 12:271 Kings 9:151 Kings 14:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB regularly presents the term as “Jerusalem” in travel, residence, royal, construction, conflict, and worship clauses. Those English clauses confirm the setting of the proper name rather than define it independently.