The JEWS think Mount Moriah and Mount Zion are the SAME LOCATION. What they now call Mount Moriah was about 750 feet NORTH of Mount Zion. That Mt. Zion, is no longer their, BECAUSE Prince Simon in 132 A.D. ordered it turned into a ROCK QUARRY, because the TEMPLE of JUPITER was erected where the JEWISH TEMPLE WAS LOCATED, so the BEDROCK had to be removed because the it was defiled too. So it is almost level with the ground now.
Yet another artist, that NEVER read Josephus, Viewed from above the Mount of Olives, looking West. YES it pictures the TEMPLE in the right location, and he pictures the double Causeway, but way to short. Josephus said the distance between between north wall of the Temple COMPLEX and the Southern wall of Fortress Antonia, was approximately 600 feet. This artist did not want to offend Muslims, as he labeled it Dome of Rock, which was never there in 70 AD., and THEN on top of it all, he picture a TINY Fortress Antonia. The Roman Tenth Legion was their home, and counting Soldiers and Support staff housed in Fortress Antonia housed 10,000 personnel, AND ALL KINDS OF SHOP FOR THE SOLDIERS, would have been MUCH, MUCH BIGGER than what is pictured here, and the TALLEST TOWER WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE SOUTHEAST CORNER.
So Mount Zion was where the TEMPLE in this picture is located, and Mount Moriah would have been near north end of where LITTLE Fortress is in the above Picture is located running south from there. Here is Proof:
2 Samuel 5:7 (ESV)
7 Nevertheless, David took the stronghold of Zion, that is, the city of David.
Jeremiah 50:28 (ESV)
28 “A voice! They flee and escape from the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, vengeance for his temple.
Lamentations 2:6 (HCSB)
6 He has done violence to His temple as if ⌊it were⌋ a garden ⌊booth⌋, destroying His place of meeting. The LORD has abolished appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion. He has despised king and priest in His fierce anger.
Sirach 36:19 (NRSV)
19 Fill Zion with your majesty, and your temple with your glory.
Genesis 22:2 (ASV)
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into
the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
So the LAND was called Moriah, as well as Mount Moriah.
2 Chronicles 3:1 (YLT)
1 And Solomon beginneth to build the house of Jehovah, in Jerusalem,
in the mount of Moriah, where He appeared to David his father, in the place that David had prepared,
in the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite,
NOW THAT APPEARS TO BE A Contradiction in our BIBLES, but let me show you why it is NOT.
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See that doted Line up top by the wrong location the TEMPLE MOUNT. Follow that line down the west side, stay left at the intersection, until it curves back up. THAT IS ALL MOUNT MORIAH, and in the MIDDLE was a secondary hill with FLAT TOP, for the Threshing Floor on the southern END of the OPHEL, ALSO CALLED MOUNT ZION. The rest of that DOTTED LINE would be the LAND of MORIAH.
QUOTE:
The topographic map shows that Mount Moriah is not a single peak, but an elongated ridge which commences to rise at its Southern end at the junction of the Kidron and Hinnom Valleys, at the original City of David, (elevation approximately 600 meters).
http://www.templemount.org/moriah2.html END QOUTE.
YES, AMEN, PRAISE THE LORD! Both Mount MORIAH, and Mount ZION, are CORRECT. The Fact that Prince Simon ORDERED the original TEMPLE MOUNT torn down, hide it from VIEW, so FEW PEOPLE EVEN KNOW IT WAS THERE on the Southern end of the OPHEL.