The Pulpit Commentary — 2 Chronicles — Section 31

EXPOSITION. Solomon's Moriah being Abraham's-in that OHAPTER III. this latter was a specially conspicuous height Ver. 1.-Mount Moriah. This name il!':l'C (Gen. xxii. 4), and was a secluded and com- occurs twice in the Old Testament, viz. here paratively desolate place, neither of which and Gen. xxii. 2, in which latter reference features attach to Solomon's Moriah. Never- it is alluded to e.s " tho land of Moriah," theless the identity theory is stoutly mai-n- and " one of the mountains" in it is spoken tained by names as good as those of Thomson of. Whether the name designates the same (' Land and the Bo9k,' p. 475); Tristram place in ea.eh instance is more than doubtful. (' Land of Israel,' p. 152): Hengstenberg In the present pnssage the connection of the (' Genuineness of Pentateuch,' ii. 162, Ry- place with David is marked. Had it been the land's tr.); Kurtz(' History of 0. C.,' i. 271); 1pot connected with Abraham and the pro- and Knobel and Kalisch under the passage posed sacrifice of Isaac, it is at least probable in Genesis-against Grove (in Dr. Smith's that this also would have been emphasized, 'Bible Dictionary'); Stanley (' Sinai and and not here only, but in 2 Sam. xxiv. 17- Palestine,' p. 251; •JewishChurch,'i. 49); De 25 and 1 Chron. xxi. 16-26; but in neither of Wette, Bleek,and Tischendorf[see' Speaker's these places is there the remotest suggestion Commentary,' under Gen. xxii. 2]. Though ?f such fame of old belonging to it. Nor there is some uncertainty as to the more exact In later passages of history (e.g. Nehemiah's form of the derivation of the name Moriah, it rehuilding, and in the prophets, and the seems most probable that the meaning of it New Testament), where the opportunities may be "the sight of Jehovah." Where the would have been of the most tempting, is Lord appeared unto David his father. The ~here found one singlo suggestion of the kind. clause is no donbt elliptical, and probably it rhorn nre also at fewest two reasons of a is not to be mended by the inserting of the positive autl intrinsic chnmcter against words," the Lord," as in our Authorized Ver- 32 THE SECOND BOOK OF THE CHRONICLES. [err. rn.1-17.