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The proverb quoted in Genesis seems to indicate the same fact. Moreover, the distance of the mountain from Beer-sheba three days' journey would be also the distance of Jerusalem from Abraham's starting-place. It is even possible that in the name of Yahveh-yireh we have a play upon the first element in the name of Jeru-salem.
The word uru, "city," became yeru or yiru in Hebrew pronunciation, and between this and yireh the difference is not great. Yahveh-yireh, "the Lord sees," might also be interpreted "the Lord of Yeru." The temple-hill was emphatically "the mount of the Lord." The term reminds us of Babylonia, where the mercy-seat of the great temple of Bel-Merodach at Babylon was termed Du-azagga, "the holy hill."
Isaac had been born to him, and he was called upon to sacrifice his first-born son. The place of sacrifice was upon one of the mountains in the land of Moriah. There at the last moment the hand of the father was stayed, and a ram was substituted for the human victim. "And Abraham called the name of that place Yahveh-yireh; as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen."
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