A Name of God in the Bible: Jehovah-Jireh

Jehovah-Jireh (יְהוָה יִרְאֶה) means “The LORD Will Provide.” The name comes from the Old Testament book of Genesis, Chapter 22, in the account of Abraham. It refers to the location on Mount Moriah where Abraham sacrificed a ram, whose horns were caught in a thicket, as a burnt offering in place of his son Isaac. Through this event, the LORD God knew that Abraham truly feared Him. Abraham named the place “Jehovah-Jireh” (meaning, “The LORD Will Provide”), and to this day it is said, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided” (Genesis 22:14).

More than a thousand years after Abraham offered Isaac, the LORD God appeared to King David in this very place. This is also where King Solomon, David’s son, built the Temple (2 Chronicles 3:1).

The Bible records:

[Genesis 22:13-14] And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. So Abraham called the name of that place, “The LORD will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.”

[2 Chronicles 3:1] Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the Lord had appeared to David his father, at the place that David had appointed, on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.