Question: According to II Chronicles, what is the significance of Mt. Moriah?
Answer: Site of Solomon's Temple. (II Chronicles 3:1)
Comments: The word "Moriah" (literally meaning "ordained/considered by YHWH") appears only twice in the entire Bible. It refers to the place where Abraham took Isaac for sacrifice (Genesis 22:2) and the site of the temple, where the entire nation of Israel took their sacrifices (II Chronicles 3:1).
He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." (Genesis 22:2, NASB)
Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David, at the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. (II Chronicles 3:1, NASB)
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