Moriah

Moriah (meaning chosen of Jehovah or seen of the LORD) refers to two related but possibly identical locations of supreme sacred significance. The "land of Moriah" was the destination God commanded Abraham to travel to in order to offer Isaac as a burnt offering (Gen. 22:2), a three-day journey from Beersheba. The angel of the LORD intervened at the last moment and provided a ram in Isaac's place, and Abraham named the site Jehovah-jireh — "the LORD will provide" (Gen. 22:14). The second reference to Moriah identifies it as the site in Jerusalem where Solomon built the temple, on the threshing floor of Ornan (Araunah) the Jebusite that David had purchased after the divine judgment of the census (2 Sam. 24:24–25; 2 Chr. 3:1). The identification of both sites as Moriah suggests a deliberately theological connection: the hill of Abraham's sacrifice became the hill of Israel's sacrifice, and ultimately the hill nearest to Golgotha where the ultimate sacrifice of the Son of God took place.