AND NO RECOLLECTION THAT MOUNT MORIAH WAS A ORIGINALLY A MOUNTAINOUS RIDGE THAT RAN FROM NORTH OF THE DOME OF A ROCK AND THE SOUTHERN TIP OF THE CITY OF DAVID. THUS THE CENTER PEAK ON THAT RIDGE WAS THE ORIGINAL MOUNT ZION, ON THE SOUTH END OF THE OPHEL, SO ON MOUNT MORIAH WHICH WAS NOT A SINGLE PEAK, AND AN ON THE ORIGINAL MOUNT ZION IS THE EXACT SAME PLACE. THE JEWS HAVE TO DENY THAT TRUTH, TO PLACE THE TEMPLE ON THE HIGHEST HILL.
SEE PARAGRAPH 10 OF THIS ARTICLE, DATED APRIL 8, 1996.
http://www.templemount.org/moriah2.html
And they reduce the FACT that MOUNT ZION was the in the OPHEL, to a MYTH, because supposedly "everyone" knows that Mount Zion is this mountain, called Mount Zion, was located Southwest of the so-called Temple Mount. Therefore the verses that indicate that Mount Zion IS Specific Location of the TEMPLE, has to be Wrong, so it must mean in the land of Mount Zion instead. WHO IS MORE THAN LIKELY WRONG, GOD or Man?
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The next mountain Southwest of the so-called Temple Mount.
IGNORING the fact the Prince Simon in 132 A.D. ordered the ORIGINAL Mount Zion on the OPHEL (Temple Mount) would be a ROCK QUARRY, because the ROMANS had built the Temple of Jupiter there, defiling even the Bedrock.
WIKIPEDIA QUOTE:
Mount Zion (Hebrew: הַר צִיּוֹן, Har Tsiyyon; Arabic: جبل صهيون, Jabal Sahyoun) is a hill in Jerusalem, located just outside the walls of the Old City. 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.[1][2] In a wider sense, the term is also used for the entire Land of Israel.[3]
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The three different locations:
David's Tomb on Mount Zion
The name
Mount Zion referred successively to three locations, as Jerusalemites preserved the time-honoured name, but shifted the location they venerated as the focal point of biblical Jerusalem to the site considered most appropriate in their own time.
Lower Eastern Hill (City of David):
At first, Mount Zion was the name given to the
Jebusite fortified city on the lower part of ancient Jerusalem's Eastern Hill, also known as the
City of David.
[1]
According to the
Book of Samuel, Mount Zion was the site of the Jebusite fortress called the "stronghold of Zion" that was conquered by
King David, then renamed and partially rebuilt by him as the "City of David", where he erected his
palace.
[1]
Upper Eastern Hill (Temple Mount):
Once the
First Temple was erected at the top of the Eastern Hill, the name "Mount Zion" migrated there too.
[1]
After the conquest of the Jebusite city, its built-up area expanded northward towards the uppermost part of the same, Eastern Hill. This highest part became the site of Solomon's Temple.
The identification of the pre-Israelite (Jebusite) and Israelite towns on the Eastern Hill is based on the existence of only one perennial water source in the area, the
Gihon Spring, and on archaeological excavations revealing sections of the Bronze Age and Iron Age city walls and water systems.
[1][10]
The "Mount Zion" mentioned in the later parts of the
Book of Isaiah (
Isaiah 60:14), in the
Book of Psalms, and the
First Book of Maccabees (c. 2nd century BCE) seems to refer to the top of the hill, generally known as the
Temple Mount.
[1]
Western Hill (today's Mount Zion):
Natural topography of the old city of Jerusalem and its surroundings
The last shift of the name Mount Zion was to the Western Hill, which is more dominant {higher} than the Eastern Hill and seemed to first-century CE Jerusalemites the worthier location for the by-then lost palace of King David. The Western Hill is what today is called Mount Zion.
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HISTORY:
. . .
Between 1948 and 1967, when the Old City was under
Jordanian rule, Israelis were forbidden access to the Jewish holy places.
Mount Zion was a designated no-man's land between Israel and Jordan.[16] Mount Zion was the closest accessible site to the ancient
Jewish Temple. Until East Jerusalem was captured by Israel in the
Six-Day War, Israelis would climb to the rooftop of
David's Tomb to pray.
[17] The winding road leading up to Mount Zion is known as Pope's Way (
Derekh Ha'apifyor). It was paved in honor of the historic visit to Jerusalem of
Pope Paul VI in 1964.
[16]
END QUOTE.
The LAST SHIFT of where Mount Zion ACTUALLY IS, was made during the agreement on ONE location of Mount ZION during the Jordanian rule in the paragraph. SO THEY CHOSE THE HIGHEST HILL, and it is WRONG. It actually was the LOWER EASTERN HILL, on the Southern end of the OPHEL. It appears to me the Decisions of the Sanhedrin, are totally VOID of the Holy Spirit Input.
1 Maccabees 7:33 (NRSV)
33 After these events
Nicanor went up to Mount Zion. Some of
the priests from the sanctuary and some of the elders of the people came out to greet him peaceably and to show him the burnt offering that was being offered for the king.
That verse was written between 134-104 B.C. AND it clearly puts the TEMPLE on Mount ZION, not near there.