INTRODUCTION TO GENESIS 22 In this chapter we have an account of an order given by God to Abraham to sacrifice his son, Genesis 22:1; of his readiness to obey the will of God, he immediately preparing everything for that purpose, Genesis 22:3, of the order being reversed, and another sacrifice sub... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS,.... Recorded in the preceding chapter: according to the Talmudists b, the following affair was transacted quickly after the weaning of Isaac, when he was about five years old, which is the opinion of some, as Aben Ezra on Genesis 22:4; makes mention of; but t... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, TAKE NOW THY SON,.... Directly, immediately; not thine ox, nor thy sheep, nor thy ram, nor thy lamb, nor thy servant, but thy son: THINE ONLY [SON] ISAAC; for, though Ishmael was his son, he was a son by his maid, by his concubine, and not by his wife; Isaac was his only legitimate son... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABRAHAM ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING,.... For it seems it was in a dream or vision of the night that the above orders were given; and as soon as it was morning he rose and prepared to execute them with all readiness, and without any hesitation and delay: AND SADDLED HIS ASS; for his journey, no... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN ON THE THIRD DAY,.... After he had received the command from God, and from his setting out on his journey; for he had now travelled two days, Mount Moriah being forty miles from Beersheba, where Abraham dwelt s; or, as others compute it, forty: Hebron t was twenty miles from Beersheba, and Jeru... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABRAHAM SAID UNTO THE YOUNG MEN, ABIDE YOU HERE WITH THE ASS,.... At the place from whence he had his first sight of Mount Moriah: he chose not to take his two servants with him, lest when they saw him binding his son, and going about to sacrifice him, they should lay hold upon him, and restrain... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABRAHAM TOOK THE WOOD OF THE BURNT OFFERING,.... Which Josephus a says was laid upon the ass, and carried by that; and if so, he took it from thence: but it is probable it was carried by his two servants, since it was not more than Isaac himself afterwards carried, as in the next clause: AND LA... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ISAAC SPAKE UNTO ABRAHAM HIS FATHER,.... As they were walking together: AND SAID, MY FATHER; a cutting word to Abraham, who knew what he was going to do with him, so contrary to the relation and affection of a parent: AND HE SAID, HERE [AM] I, MY SON; what hast thou to say to me? I am ready to... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABRAHAM SAID, MY SON, GOD WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB FOR A BURNT OFFERING,.... In which answer Abraham may have respect to the Messiah, the Lamb of God, John 1:29, whom he had provided in council and covenant before the world was; and who in promise, and type, and figure, was slain from the fou... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY CAME TO THE PLACE WHICH GOD HAD TOLD HIM OF,.... Mount Moriah. Maimonides f says, "it is a tradition in or by the hands of all, that this is the place where David and Solomon built an altar in the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jebusite, and where Abraham built an altar, and bound Isaac o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABRAHAM STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND,.... All things being ready for execution, the altar built, the wood laid on it, the sacrifice bound and laid on that, nothing remained but to cut the throat of the sacrifice; and in order to that, the instrument for it laying by him, he put forth his hand, one w... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CALLED UNTO HIM OUT OF HEAVEN,.... Not a created angel, but the eternal one, the Son of God, who perhaps appeared in an human form, and spoke with an articulate voice, as be frequently did; for that this was a divine Person is clear from his swearing by himself, and renewin... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE SAID, LAY NOT THINE HAND UPON THE LAD,.... Which he was just going to stretch out, with his knife in it, to slay him; and though the Lord had bid him take his son, and offer him for a burnt offering, to try his faith, fear, love, and obedience, yet he meant not that he should actually slay hi... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABRAHAM LIFTED UP HIS EYES,.... They were before fixed upon his son lying upon the altar, and intent upon that part he was going to thrust his knife into; but hearing a voice from heaven above him, he lift up his eyes thitherward: AND LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, BEHIND [HIM] A RAM CAUGHT IN A THICKET... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ABRAHAM CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE JEHOVAHJIREH,.... Which may be rendered either "the Lord hath seen", as the Septuagint, or "has provided", the future being put for the past, as Abendana observes, and so it is called, in answer to what Abraham had said, Genesis 22:8; "God will provide": no... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE ANGEL OF THE LORD CALLED UNTO ABRAHAM OUT OF HEAVEN THE SECOND TIME. The Angel having restrained him from slaying his son, and having provided another sacrifice, which he offered, calls to him again; having something more to say to him, which was to renew the covenant he had made with him, a... [ Continue Reading ]
AND SAID, BY MYSELF HAVE I SWORN, SAITH THE LORD,.... Which Aben Ezra observes is a great oath, and abides for ever; for because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, his own nature, perfections, and life, Hebrews 6:13; hence it appears, that the Angel that called to Abraham was a divin... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT IN BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE,.... With temporal and spiritual blessings; with the Spirit and all his graces; with Christ and redemption, justification, and salvation by him; and with eternal life, as the gift of God, through him: AND IN MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY THY SEED AS THE STARS OF THE... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN THY SEED SHALL ALL NATIONS OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED,.... That is, in his one and principal seed, the Messiah, that should spring from him, Galatians 3:16, in whom all the elect of God, of all nations under the heavens, are blessed with all spiritual blessings, with peace, pardon, righteousness... [ Continue Reading ]
SO ABRAHAM RETURNED TO HIS YOUNG MEN,.... He had left at a certain place with the ass, while he and Isaac went to the mount to worship; and who stayed there till he came to them, according to his order, Genesis 22:5; no mention is made of Isaac, but there is no doubt that he returned with Abraham, s... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AFTER THESE THINGS,.... Abraham's taking his son Isaac to the land of Moriah, building an altar on one of the mountains there, and laying him on it with an intention to sacrifice him, and offering of a ram in his stead, and the return of them both to Beersheba: THAT IT WAS TOLD... [ Continue Reading ]
HUZ HIS FIRSTBORN, AND BUZ HIS BROTHER,.... The first of these gave name to the land of Uz, where Job dwelt, and who seems to be a descendant of this man, Job 1:1; and from whom sprung the Ausitae of Ptolemy p, who dwelt near Babylon and by the Euphrates. The latter, was the father of the Buzites, o... [ Continue Reading ]
AND CHESED,.... From whom it is generally thought sprung the Chaldees, who are commonly called Chasdim; but mention is made of the Chaldees before this man was born, unless they are called so by anticipation; Genesis 10:22: AND HAZO, AND PILDASH, AND JIDLAPH, AND BETHUEL; of these men and their pos... [ Continue Reading ]
AND BETHUEL BEGAT REBEKAH,.... Who was to be and was the wife of Isaac; and, for the sake of her genealogy, the above account is given, as Aben Ezra observes, and so Jarchi; and this is observed to pave the way for the history of the chapter; for no notice is taken of any other of Bethuel's children... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HIS CONCUBINE, WHOSE NAME [WAS] REUMAH,.... Not an harlot, but a secondary wife, who was under the proper and lawful wife, and a sort of a head servant in the family, and chiefly kept for the procreation of children; which was not thought either unlawful or dishonourable in those times such as w... [ Continue Reading ]