The Definition of the word Moriah

Moriah

The chosen of Jehovah. Some contend that Mount Gerizim is meant, but most probably we are to regard this as one of the hills of "Jerusalem. Here Solomon's temple was built, on the spot that had" "been the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite (2 Sam. 24:24," "25; 2 Chr. 3:1). It is usually included in Zion, to the" "north-east of which it lay, and from which it was separated by" "the Tyropoean valley. This was "the land of Moriah" to which" Abraham went to offer up his son Isaac (Gen. 22:2). It has been "supposed that the highest point of the temple hill, which is now" "covered by the Mohammedan Kubbetes-Sakhrah, or "Dome of the" "Rock," is the actual site of Araunah's threshing-floor. Here" "also, one thousand years after Abraham, David built an altar and" offered sacrifices to God. (See [417]JERUSALEM; NUMBERING THE [418]PEOPLE.)