Bible Verses about โmt moriahโ
The Bible contains 28 verses about mt moriah across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โFor God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.โ
โGod said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."โ
โIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.โ
โAbraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh's mountain, it will be provided."โ
โHe said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."โ
โthat I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your seed greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.โ
โAbraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.โ
โIt happened after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."โ
โIsaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"โ
โOn the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.โ
โHe said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."โ
โAbraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.โ
โAbraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.โ
โAbraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you."โ
โAbraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.โ
โThey came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.โ
โAbraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.โ
โThe angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."โ
โThe angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,โ
โand said, "I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,โ
โIn your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."โ
โSo Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.โ
โIt happened after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:โ
โUz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,โ
โChesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."โ
โBethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.โ
โHis concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.โ
โThen Solomon began to build the house of Yahweh at Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where [Yahweh] appeared to David his father, which he prepared in the place that David had appointed, in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.โ
