moriah

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moriah - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  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,
  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 valley. This was "the land of Moriah" to which
  Abraham went to offer up his son Isaac (Gen. 22:2). It has been
  supposed that the highest point of the temple hill, which is now
  covered by the Mohammedan Kubbetes-Sakhrah, or "Dome of the
  Rock," is the actual site of Araunah's threshing-floor. Here
  also, one thousand years after Abraham, David built an altar and
  offered sacrifices to God. (See JERUSALEM; NUMBERING
  THE PEOPLE.)

moriah - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Moriah, NY
    Zip code(s): 12960