모리아 는 예루살렘 지역에 있는 산이다.
Abraham 이 아들
Isaac 을 하나님께 바치려 하던 산이다.
He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac , whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah . Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”
그리고 후에,
Solomon 이 성전을 건축할 때, 건축부지로 아버지
David 이 미리 지정한 곳이다.
Then Solomon began to build Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah , where Yahweh appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
그리고 위 본문에서 알 수 있듯이, 이곳은
David 이 인구조사를 하는 죄를 범한 뒤, 하나님의 징계를 받을 때에,
천사가 역병으로 백성을 칠 때에 천사가 서있던 곳이기도 하다.
15 God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it. As he was about to destroy, Yahweh saw, and he relented of the disaster, and said to the destroying angel, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was standing by the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
16 David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem . Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
17 David said to God, “Isn’t it I who commanded the people to be counted? It is even I who have sinned and done very wickedly; but these sheep, what have they done? Please let your hand, O Yahweh my God, be against me, and against my father’s house; but not against your people, that they should be plagued.”
18 Then Yahweh’s angel commanded Gad to tell David that David should go up and raise an altar to Yahweh on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.
19 David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spoke in Yahweh’s name.
20 Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
21 As David came to Ornan , Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.
22 Then David said to Ornan , “Give me the place of this threshing floor, that I may build an altar to Yahweh on it. You shall sell it to me for the full price, that the plague may be stopped from afflicting the people.”
23 Ornan said to David , “Take it for yourself, and let my lord the king do that which is good in his eyes. Behold, I give the oxen for burnt offerings, and the threshing instruments for wood, and the wheat for the meal offering. I give it all.”
24 King David said to Ornan , “No; but I will most certainly buy it for the full price. For I will not take that which is yours for Yahweh, nor offer a burnt offering that costs me nothing.”
25 So David gave to Ornan six hundred shekels of gold by weight for the place.
26 David built an altar to Yahweh there, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering .
27 Then Yahweh commanded the angel, and he put his sword back into its sheath.
마지막으로 이 산이 나중에는 풍화작용으로 깎이면서 언덕으로 불리우게 되는데, 바로
Golgotha 언덕이며<ref>그러나 이에 대한 정확한 근거는 아직 찾는 중</ref>,
여기서 예수님이 십자가에 달리시게 된다.