Mount Moriah
Genesis 22:2; 2 Chronicles 3:1. (See JEHOVAH JIREH;
GERIZIM.) What Jehovah has made one see (this hophal mowreh
occurs four times in the Pentateuch, nowhere in later books)
"the vision of Jehovah". In the same neighborhood He
vouchsafed a vision to Abram (Genesis 14; Genesis 15:1)
after Melchizedek had met him in the valley near Salem and
Abr...
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(chosen by Jehovah).
1. The land of Moriah --On "one of the mountains" in
this district took place the sacrifice of Isaac. Ge 22:2 Its
position is doubtful, some thinking it to be Mount MOriah,
others that Moreh, near Shechem, is meant. [See MOUNT MORIAH]
2. Mount Moriah. --The elevation on which Solomon
built the temple, where God appeared t...
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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, a...
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Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem
in mount Moriah, where [the LORD] appeared unto David his
father, in the place that David had prepared in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite....
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