Genesis 22:1-8
The Journey to Moriah... [ Continue Reading ]
The Journey to Moriah... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass after these things that God did tempt Abraham and said unto him, Abraham; and he said, Behold, here I am. After these happenings at Beersheba God tempted, or tested, Abraham, not by giving him an occasion to sin, James 1:13, but by trying his faith as to its soundness and strengt... [ Continue Reading ]
And He said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of. The Lord makes His proposal with deliberate, detailed emphasIsaiah Abraham was to take his son, n... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac, his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went unto the place of which God had told him. There is not a word about excitement or turmoil in the heart of Abraham... [ Continue Reading ]
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place a far off. The distance from Beersheba to Jerusalem was forty-five to fifty miles and therefore required about two and one-half days of steady traveling.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you. Although the servants of Abraham were devoted to him, they were hardly prepared to witness the scene which would be enacted on the mountain that lay before them. In s... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac, his son; and he took the fire in his hand and a knife; and they went both of them together. Abraham personally carried the knife for the slaughter and the fire, a glimmering coal or a bit of tinder wood in a kettle, while he la... [ Continue Reading ]
And Isaac spake unto Abraham, his father, and said, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? Isaac broke the oppressive silence with a question of childish curiosity. He had noted that everything else had been p... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together. It was not Abraham's intention, as Luther remarks, to torture his son with the details of the divine command; and the quiet answer of his father satisfied Isaac.... [ Continue Reading ]
And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac, his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. The detailed narrative again calls attention to the strict obedience of Abraham: the building of the altar, the layin... [ Continue Reading ]
The Interference of God... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. This is the climax, the most dramatic moment of the story: Isaac as a patient sacrifice, knowing himself to be the burnt offering which the Lord had provided, and the father ready to slaughter his son.... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.... [ Continue Reading ]
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from Me. The Angel of the Lord in the special sense of the word, the Son of God, is here again in evidence, interfering just i... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. God here directed the attention of Abraham to the ram in the background, overlooked by him ti... [ Continue Reading ]
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh, as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen. As Abraham applied to the place of his sacrifice a name which means "the Lord will see or provide," so men afterward had a proverbial saying based upon this happening, "on t... [ Continue Reading ]
And the Angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,... [ Continue Reading ]
The Blessing of the Lord Repeated... [ Continue Reading ]
and said, By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son,... [ Continue Reading ]
that in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;... [ Continue Reading ]
and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. A solemn declaration and prophecy, supported by the strongest oath which the Lord may swear, by Himself. The extent of the promise, which points forward to a numberless progeny, to the complete overthro... [ Continue Reading ]
So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. Abraham's faith had been fully vindicated; his trust had been rewarded in a most wonderful manner. He now, with Isaac, returned to the place where his servants were waiting for hi... [ Continue Reading ]
And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor:... [ Continue Reading ]
The Family of Nahor... [ Continue Reading ]
Huz, his first-born, and Buz, his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,... [ Continue Reading ]
and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.... [ Continue Reading ]
And Bethuel begat Rebekah; these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.... [ Continue Reading ]
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah. of these children of Nahor, Buz is mentioned Jeremiah 25:23 and Job 32:2, and Maachah Deuteronomy 3:14; Joshua 12:5. The others may, in part, have been fathers of tribes later found in Southern Mesopo... [ Continue Reading ]