Misinterpretations often detach the Temple's site from its biblical context by conflating Mount Moriah vaguely with Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac without noting the verse's precise reference to David's vision and purchase of Ornan's threshing floor, leading some to imagine an unrelated or symbolic location; others dismiss the event as mere legend or relocate it geographically outside Jerusalem, ignoring the historical continuity from David's altar to Solomon's Temple and undermining the passage's emphasis on God's sovereign designation of a specific place for atonement and worship.
II Chronicles 3:1
King James Version (1769)
1 Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
This verse records the start of King Solomon's construction of the Temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, pinpointing the exact location as the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite where God appeared to David his father amid a plague, linking the Temple directly to David's act of repentance and sacrifice that halted divine judgment, thereby highlighting God's chosen site for His dwelling place among Israel and the seamless transition of divine purpose from father to son in fulfilling the promise of a permanent house for the Lord.