Genesis 22:12-22

12 He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing * to him; for now ¹I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld ²your son, your only son, from Me."

13 Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.

14 Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, "In the mount of the LORD ³it will be provided."

15 Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

16 and said, "⁴By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because * you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,

17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly ⁵multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as ⁶the sand which is on the seashore *; and ⁷your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

18 "⁸In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because * you have ⁹obeyed My voice."

19 ¹⁰So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

20 Now it came about after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, "Behold, ¹¹Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:

21 Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram

22 and Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel."

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Genesis 22:12-22 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 22

In this chapter we have an account of an order given by God to Abraham to sacrifice his son, Ge 22:1,2; of his readiness to obey the will of God, he immediately preparing everything for that purpose, Ge 22:3-10, of the order being reversed, and another sacrifice substituted in its room, which occasioned the giving a new name to the place where it was done, Ge 22:11-14; upon which the promise of special blessings, of a numerous offspring, and of the seed in whom all nations should be blessed, is renewed, Ge 22:15-18; after this Abraham returns to Beersheba, where he is informed of the increase of his brother Nahor's family, Ge 22:19-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 11

1. James 2:21, 22
2. Genesis 22:2, 16
3. Genesis 22:8
4. Psalms 105:9; Luke 1:73; Hebrews 6:13, 14
5. Genesis 15:5; Genesis 26:4; Jeremiah 33:22; Hebrews 11:12
6. Genesis 32:12
7. Genesis 24:60
8. Genesis 12:3; Genesis 18:18; Acts 3:25; Galatians 3:8, 16
9. Genesis 18:19; Genesis 22:3, 10; Genesis 26:5
10. Genesis 22:5
11. Genesis 11:29

Footnotes 9

[a]. Or "reverence;" lit "are a fearer of God"
[b]. Heb "YHWH-jireh"
[c]. Lit "be seen"
[d]. Or "descendants"
[e]. Or "descendants"
[f]. Lit "his"
[g]. Or "descendants"
[h]. Or "bless themselves"
[i]. Lit "she also"