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Araunah (Hebrew: אֲרַוְנָה ʾǍrawnā) was a Jebusite mentioned in the Second Book of Samuel, who owned the threshing floor on Mount Moriah which David purchased and used as the site for assembling an altar to God. The First Book of Chronicles, a later text, renders his name as Ornan (אָרְנָן ʾOrnān).
Map of Jerusalem in 1925, showing the location of Mount Moriah according to Jewish sources The area around Mount Gerizim is identified by the Samaritans as the "land of Moriah", or "Moreh". Moriah / m ɒ ˈ r aɪ ə / ( Hebrew: מוֹרִיָּה , Mōrīyya ; Arabic : ﻣﺮﻭﻩ, Marwah ) is the name given to a region in the Book of ...
According to Jewish tradition, Jerusalem is Mount Moriah, the location of the binding of Isaac. The Hebrew Bible mentions the name "Jerusalem" 669 times, often because many mitzvot can only be performed within its environs. The name "Zion", which usually refers to Jerusalem, but sometimes the Land of Israel, appears in the Hebrew Bible 154 times.
Mount Nebo (Jordan) Islam: Nabi Musa, West Bank, According to the Bible, the exact place of Moses' grave remains unknown, in order to impede idolatry. Aaron: Tomb of Aaron: Mount Harun near Petra, Jordan. At 1350 meters above sea-level, it is the highest peak in the area; it is believed to be the place where Aaron died and was buried.
The first section, the Torah, only mentions Moriah, the mountain range believed to be the location of the binding of Isaac and the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and in later parts of the Tanakh the city is written explicitly. The Tanakh (or Old Testament), is a text sacred to both Judaism and Christianity.
"The Cave beneath the Holy Rock, Jerusalem".Watercolor over pencil on paper, Carl Haag, 1859 The Well of Souls (Arabic: بئر الأرواح, romanized: Biʾr al-Arwaḥ; sometimes translated Pit of Souls, Cave of Spirits, or Well of Spirits), is a partly natural, partly man-made cave located inside the Foundation Stone ("Noble Rock" in Islam) under the Dome of the Rock shrine on the Temple ...
The term Mount Zion has been used in the Hebrew Bible first for the City of David (2 Samuel 5:7, 1 Chronicles 11:5; 1 Kings 8:1, 2 Chronicles 5:2) and later for the Temple Mount, but its meaning has shifted and it is now used as the name of ancient Jerusalem's Western Hill.
The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet (Hebrew: הַר הַזֵּיתִים Har HaZeitim) is a mountain east of Jerusalem, most notable as the site of the Olivet Discourse and the Ascension of Jesus. Mount Olive, Arkansas (disambiguation) Mount Olive, New Jersey; Mount Olivet Cemetery, many throughout the US