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Genesis 22:4-14

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4 On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over * there *; and we will worship and return to you."
6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and 1laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the 2lamb for the burnt offering?"
8 Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.
9 Then they came to 3the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built 4the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and 5laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But 6the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
12 He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing * to him; for now 7I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld 8your 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 9it will be provided."
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Genesis 22:4-14 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 9

  • 1. John 19:17
  • 2. Exodus 29:38-42; John 1:29, 36; Revelation 13:8
  • 3. Genesis 22:2
  • 4. Genesis 12:7, 8; Genesis 13:18
  • 5. Hebrews 11:17-19; James 2:21
  • 6. Genesis 16:7-11; Genesis 21:17, 18
  • 7. James 2:21, 22
  • 8. Genesis 22:2, 16
  • 9. Genesis 22:8

Footnotes 4

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