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Moriah

Judean hill country (associated with Jerusalem) · Old Testament · 2 verses

Moriah is the region, and later the mountain, associated with the testing of Abraham and, in Chronicles, with the site of the temple in Jerusalem. It is a hill in the area of Jerusalem. The name appears in Genesis, 2 Chronicles in the King James text.

About Moriah

Moriah is the region, and later the mountain, associated with the testing of Abraham and, in Chronicles, with the site of the temple in Jerusalem. It is a hill in the area of Jerusalem.

Its place in the story

God directed Abraham to the land of Moriah to offer Isaac, and there provided a ram in Isaac's place. Second Chronicles identifies Mount Moriah as the place where Solomon built the temple.

Moriah in Scripture (KJV)

“And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.”

Genesis 22:2 (KJV)

“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.”

2 Chronicles 3:1 (KJV)

Where it leads

The provision of a substitute in place of Isaac on Moriah is one of the clearest Old Testament pictures pointing to God providing his own Son as the sacrifice.

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