Editing Temple Mount (section)

=== Other Hebrew terms ===
[[Books of Chronicles|2 Chronicles]] 3:1<ref name=":15">{{bibleverse|2 Chronicles|3:1|HE}}.</ref> refers to the Temple Mount in the time before the construction of the temple as Mount Moriah ({{langx|he|הַר הַמֹּורִיָּה}}, {{transliteration|he|har ha-Môriyyāh}}).

Several passages in the [[Hebrew Bible]] indicate that during the time when they were written, the Temple Mount was identified as Mount Zion.<ref name="Pixner">{{cite book |author=Pixner |first=Bargil |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bvhA6IE4VqgC&q=zion+canaanite&pg=PA321 |title=Paths of the Messiah |publisher=Ignatius Press |others=Translated by Keith Myrick and Miriam Randall |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-89870-865-3 |editor=[[Rainer Riesner]] |pages=320–322}}</ref> The [[Mount Zion]] mentioned in the later parts of the [[Book of Isaiah]] (Isaiah 60:14),<ref>{{Bibleverse|Isaiah|60:14|HE}}.</ref> 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.<ref name="Pixner" /> According to the [[Book of Samuel]], Mount Zion was the site of the Jebusite fortress called the "stronghold of Zion", but once the First Temple was erected, according to the Bible, at the top of the Eastern Hill ("Temple Mount"), the name "Mount Zion" migrated there too.<ref name="Pixner" /> The name later migrated for a last time, this time to Jerusalem's Western Hill.<ref name="Pixner" />