Mount Moriah

Deuteronomy 2:13-3:1,8 – “I am sending you Huram-Abi, a man of great skill, whose mother was from Dan and whose father was from Tyre. He is trained to work in gold and silver, bronze and iron, stone and wood, and with purple and blue and crimson yarn and fine linen. He is experienced in all kinds of engraving and can execute any design given to him. He will work with your skilled workers and with those of my lord, David your father. “Now let my lord send his servants the wheat and barley and the olive oil and wine he promised, and we will cut all the logs from Lebanon that you need and will float them as rafts by sea down to Joppa. You can then take them up to Jerusalem.” Solomon took a census of all the foreigners residing in Israel, after the census his father David had taken; and they were found to be 153,600. He assigned 70,000 of them to be carriers and 80,000 to be stonecutters in the hills, with 3,600 foremen over them to keep the people working. Then Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to his father David. It was on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, the place provided by David…He built the Most Holy Place, its length corresponding to the width of the temple—twenty cubits long and twenty cubits wide. He overlaid the inside with six hundred talents of fine gold.

Jonah 1:3 – But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.

Genesis 22:2 – Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

Application:

• ·         By heading in the opposite direction from Nineveh to what seemed like the end of the world, Jonah intended to escape his divinely appointed task.
• ·         It was also 20 cubits high, making the dimensions of the Most Holy Place a perfect cube, as also in the tabernacle. In the new Jerusalem there is no temple; rather, the whole city is in the shape of a cube, for the whole city becomes “the Most Holy Place”.
• ·         The author of Chronicles identifies the area, region of Moriah, as the temple mount in Jerusalem. Today “Mount Moriah” is occupied by the Dome of the Rock, an impressive Muslim structure erected in AD691.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV