Genesis 22:11-16

11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Cross References 15

  • 1. S Genesis 16:7
  • 2. S Genesis 21:17
  • 3. Genesis 46:2
  • 4. S ver 1
  • 5. S Genesis 18:19; Genesis 42:18; Exodus 18:21; 1 Samuel 15:22; Job 1:1; Job 37:24; Proverbs 8:13; James 2:21-22
  • 6. S ver 2; John 3:16; 1 John 4:9
  • 7. S ver 8
  • 8. S Genesis 8:20; Romans 8:32
  • 9. Exodus 17:15; Judges 6:24
  • 10. Isaiah 30:29
  • 11. ver 8
  • 12. S Genesis 16:7
  • 13. S Genesis 21:17
  • 14. Exodus 13:11; Exodus 32:13; Exodus 33:1; Isaiah 45:23; Isaiah 62:8; Jeremiah 22:5; Jeremiah 44:26; Jeremiah 49:13; Jeremiah 51:14; Amos 6:8; Luke 1:73; Hebrews 6:13
  • 15. S ver 2

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "a ram behind him"
Scripture quoted by permission.  Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®.  NIV®.  Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica.  All rights reserved worldwide.