'The land of Moriah,' where Abraham was sent to bind Isaac (22:2) — and one of the most consequential place-names in scripture, because the word appears in only TWO verses in the whole Hebrew Bible. The other is 2 Chronicles 3:1: 'Solomon began to build the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem, on MOUNT MORIAH, where Jehovah had appeared to David his father, at the place David had prepared, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.' So the Bible itself sets the altar of the Aqedah on the future Temple Mount. The chain runs: Abraham's altar (Genesis 22) → the threshing floor of Araunah/Ornan the Jebusite, bought by David for an altar after the plague (2 Samuel 24; 1 Chronicles 21) → Solomon's Temple, c. 966 BC (2 Chronicles 3:1) → the Second Temple → the platform standing today. Abraham's own name for the spot, Jehovah-Yireh ('on the mount of Jehovah it is seen to,' 22:14), reads across the centuries as a saying about this one hill. A note on the NAME of the city: at the Aqedah the place is not yet 'Jerusalem.' The nearby town is Salem, whose king Melchizedek Abraham had already met (14:18; Psalm 76:2 sets God's dwelling 'in Salem'); the Jebusites called their city Jebus (Judges 19:10); and the name Jerusalem itself (Urusalim) surfaces in the Amarna letters of about 1400 BC, after the patriarchs. Moriah was a bare height NORTH of the walled Jebusite city — which is why a threshing floor stood there, out in the wind above the town — and it was only drawn INTO Jerusalem when David and Solomon expanded the city northward to build the Temple. So the hill of Genesis 22 became the heart of Jerusalem before it wore that name. Honest caveats: the identification with the Temple Mount rests on the Chronicler (2 Chronicles 3:1) and Jewish tradition — a biblical-internal link, made explicit only centuries later; and the Samaritan tradition instead locates the binding at Mount Gerizim (their Pentateuch reads the name differently). The etymology of 'Moriah' is itself uncertain — the chapter plays it as 'seeing' (ra'ah), but 'place of teaching' (yarah) and 'myrrh' (mor) have all been proposed.