Genesis 22:3

_AND ABRAHAM ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND SADDLED HIS ASS, AND TOOK TWO OF HIS YOUNG MEN WITH HIM, AND ISAAC HIS SON, AND CLAVE THE WOOD FOR THE BURNT OFFERING, AND ROSE UP, AND WENT UNTO THE PLACE OF WHICH_ _ GOD HAD TOLD HIM._ Abraham rose up early ... That there might be no appearance of delay or reluctance on his part, he made every preparation for the sacrifice before setting out-the cleft wood, the knife, the donkey that was to convey the materials, and the servants that were to take charge of them on the journey to Moriah. All that time he had the dreadful secret pent up in his own bosom; and as: a place so distant, yet so distinctly specified, must have been chosen for some important reason, it is generally thought that "the place which God had told him of," was the hill at Jerusalem on which the Great Sacrifice was afterward offered....

3._And Abraham rose up early in the morning. _This promptitude shows the greatness of Abraham’s faith. Innumerable thoughts might come into the mind of the holy man; each of which would have overwhelmed his spirit, unless he had fortified it by faith. And there is no doubt that Satan, during the darkness of the night, would heap upon him a vast mass of cares. Gradually to overcome them, by contending with them, was the part of heroical courage. But when they were overcome, then immediately to gird himself to the fulfillment of the command of God, and even to rise early in the morning to do it, was a remarkable effort. Other men, prostrated by a message so dire and terrible, would have fainted, and have lain torpid, as if deprived of life; but the first dawn of morning was scarcely early enough for Abraham’s haste. Therefore, in a few words, Moses highly extols his faith, when he declares...

3-10 Never was any gold tried in so hot a fire. Who but Abraham would not have argued with God? Such would have been the thought of a weak heart; but Abraham knew that he had to do with a God, even Jehovah. Faith had taught him not to argue, but to obey. He is sure that what God commands is good; that what he promises cannot be broken. In matters of God, whoever consults with flesh and blood, will never offer up his Isaac to God. The good patriarch rises early, and begins his sad journey. And now he travels three days, and Isaac still is in his sight! Misery is made worse when long continued. The expression, We will come again to you, shows that Abraham expected that Isaac, being raised from the dead, would return with him. It was a very affecting question that Isaac asked him, as they were going together: "My father," said Isaac; it was a melting word, which, one would think, should st...

Verse Genesis 22:3. _TWO OF HIS YOUNG MEN_] Eliezer and Ishmael, according to the Targum. _CLAVE THE WOOD_] Small wood, _fig_ and _palm_, proper for a burnt-offering. - _Targum_....

- Abraham Was Tested 2. מריה _morı̂yâh_, “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה _môr'âh_; “Septuagint,” ὑψηλή _hupsēlē_, Onkelos, “worship.” Some take the word to be a simple derivative, as the Septuagint and Onkelos, meaning “vision, high, worship.” It might mean “rebellious.” Others regard it as a compound of יה _yâh_, “Jah, a name of God,” and מראה _mı̂r'eh_, “shown,” מורה _môreh_, “teacher,” or מורא _môrā'_, “fear.” 14. יראה _yı̂r'ēh_, “Jireh, will provide.” 16,

EXPOSITION GENESIS 22:1 AND IT CAMS TO PASS—the alleged mythical character of the present narrative (De Wette, Bohlen) is discredited not more by express Scripture statement (Hebrews 11:17) than by its own inherent difficulties—AFTER—how long after may be conjectured from the circumstance that Isaac was now a grown lad, capable of undertaking a three days journey of upwards of sixty miles—THESE THINGS (literally, words, of benediction, promise, trial that had gone before—THAT GOD—literally, _the Elohim, i.e. _neither Satan, as in 1 Chronicles 21:1, compared with...

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, not to carry the wood and provision on, which probably were carried by his servants, but to ride on; and this Jarchi thinks he did himself, and the words in their precise sense suggest this; but it does no, necessarily follow, because he may be said to do what he ordered his servant to do; of the Jews' fabulous account of this ass, see Zechariah 9:9: AND TOOK TWO OF HIS YOUNG MEN WITH HIM; the Targum of Jonathan says, these were Ishmael his son, and Eliezer his servant; and so other Jewish writers r, who tell us, that just at this time Ishmael came out of the w

Genesis 22:1. _And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt-_ That is, «God did test or try»- Genesis 22:1. _Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am. And he said, Take now thy son,_ «But, Lord, I have two sons, Ishmael and Isaac.» Genesis 22:2. _Thine only son,_ «But, Lord, both Ishmael and Isaac are my sons, and each of them is the only son of his mother.» Genesis 22:2. _Isaac, whom thou lovest,_ See how definitely God points out to Abraham the son who is to be the means of the great trial of his f

CHAPTER 22 THE TESTING OF ABRAHAM _ 1. God's command (Genesis 22:1)_ 2. Abraham's obedience (Genesis 22:3) 3. Isaac's question and Abraham's answer (Genesis 22:7) 4. Isaac upon the altar (Genesis 22:9) 5. The interference from above (Genesis 22:11) 6. Jehovah-jireh (Genesis 22:13) 7. The second message and Abraham's return ...

ABRAHAM OBEYS THE DIVINE COMMAND TO SACRIFICE ISAAC, AND IS REWARDED BY THE SPARING OF HIS SON. The main narrative (Genesis 22:1) is from E, and the story, which is a literary masterpiece, is told with a reticence more effective than any detailed exposition of the tragedy implicit in it could have been. The pathos of the son's question in Genesis 22:7, the father's answer in Genesis 22:8, is unsurpassable. And the racked feelings of the father, the unconsciousness of the son, are left to the reader's imagination. The point is that Abraham accepts, with unfaltering obedience, the demand for the costliest offering, recognising God's right to make it. The view that the writer intended to teach that human sacrifice was repugnant