Genesis 22:7-17

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 ¹lamb 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 ²the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built ³the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and ⁴laid 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 ⁵the 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 ⁶I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld ⁷your 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 ⁸it will be provided."

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

16 and said, "⁹By 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 ¹⁰multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as ¹¹the sand which is on the seashore *; and ¹²your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

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Genesis 22:7-17 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 12

1. Exodus 29:38-42; John 1:29, 36; Revelation 13:8
2. Genesis 22:2
3. Genesis 12:7, 8; Genesis 13:18
4. Hebrews 11:17-19; James 2:21
5. Genesis 16:7-11; Genesis 21:17, 18
6. James 2:21, 22
7. Genesis 22:2, 16
8. Genesis 22:8
9. Psalms 105:9; Luke 1:73; Hebrews 6:13, 14
10. Genesis 15:5; Genesis 26:4; Jeremiah 33:22; Hebrews 11:12
11. Genesis 32:12
12. Genesis 24:60

Footnotes 7

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