Rendsburg saw the author of Genesis demonstrating the significance of Jerusalem in , which refers to the site of the binding of Isaac as “the mount of the Lord.” Rendsburg noted that whenever the Bible uses this phrase elsewhere, in , ; ; ; and , it refers to Jerusalem. Rendsburg also noted that contains a concentration of key words that begin with the consonants "yod" (, "y") and "resh" (, "r"), the letters that begin the word “Jerusalem” (, "Yerushalayim"). Most prominent are the phrases , "Elohim yir’eh" (“God will see”) in ; , Adonai yir’eh (the name of the place) and , "YHVH yir’eh" (“YHVH is seen”) in ; and , "behar YHVH yir’eh", (“on the mount of the Lord there is vision”) in ; all of which evoke the name Jerusalem. Rendsburg noted further that refers to “the land of Moriah,” and this word occurs in the Bible in only one other place, “Solomon began to build the Temple of YHVH in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, which appeared to David his father, and which David had prepared as the place, at the threshing floor of Ornan (a variant of Araunah) the Jebusite.” This passage indicates that by the Persian period, Jewish readers had identified Moriah with Jerusalem. Rendsburg further noted that although Abraham built altars at Shechem in and between Bethel and Ai in , only in does the text report Abraham actually making a sacrifice — the ram that he found caught in the thicket that he sacrificed in liew of Isaac. Rendsburg argued that the message would have been clear to Israelites living in Solomon’s time that even though altars stood throughout the countryside, and some may even have been as old as Abraham, the only place where Abraham actually sacrificed was the mount of the Lord — Jerusalem — and that was why only the Jerusalem Temple was approved for sacrifices to God.