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 Samuel 24:24,25; 2 Chronicles 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
(Genesis 22:2) It
has been supposed that the highest point of the temple hill, which is
now covered by the Muslim 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.
