The famous Jerusalem chamber scene of Henry IV part 2 involves the king’s realization that, instead of dying in Jerusalem as had been foretold, he will in fact die on English soil. Shakespeare’s re-centring of Jerusalem as the dramatic focus of Westminster Abbey (where the scene takes place) is a post-Reformation response to its embodiment of the sacral power of England’s monarchy. After the break from Rome there is only one holy city: God’s city, Jerusalem. Biblical allusions to David’s city and Davidic kingship throughout the second tetralogy partake in post-Reformation typological hermeneutics in that they perform England’s aspiration to inhabit the mantle of the New Jerusalem. This essay draws on post-Armada sermons and other texts to produce a fresh reading of the biblical language of the Henriad and place the play within the context of the theological and homiletic claim that England was the New Jerusalem.