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, 2-Sam 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 vall......