MORIAH, A Mountain upon which the Temple of Jerusalem was built by King 2 Chron. iii. 1. Gen. xxii. 2, 14.Solomon. ‘Tis thought that this was the same Place where Abraham was going to offer up his Son Isaac, though this Supposition is attended with great Difficulties. Instead of Moriah in Genesis, the Samaritans read Moreh, and pretend that God sent Abraham near to Sichem, where certainly was Moreh, Gen. xii. 6. and Deut. xi. 30. and that it was upon Mount Gerizim that Isaac was brought, in order to be sacrificed.
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