Genesis 22:9

_AND THEY CAME TO THE PLACE WHICH GOD HAD TOLD HIM OF; AND ABRAHAM BUILT AN ALTAR THERE, AND LAID THE WOOD IN ORDER, AND BOUND ISAAC HIS SON, AND LAID HIM ON THE ALTAR UPON THE WOOD._ Abraham built an altar. The description is minutely given, and the preparations were made under the full impression that the oblation would be enforced. Moreover, these would require so much active exertion on the part of Abraham that there must have been little time for speaking; and, besides, the dreadful secret pent up in his bosom would strongly indispose him for being communicative. But the deep silence must at length have been broken, a conversation ensued, and the divine mandate made known. According to Josephus, Isaac was then 27 years of age. He was certainly a full-grown man, and his voluntary consent was absolutely necessary. Compulsion, in the circumstances, cannot be thought of, as it was plai...

9._And they came to the place_. Moses purposely passes over many things, which, nevertheless, the reader ought to consider. When he has mentioned the building of the altar, he immediately afterwards adds, that Isaac was bound. But we know that he was then of middle age, so that he might either be more powerful than his father, or, at least, equal to resist him, if they had to contend by force; wherefore, I do not think that force was employed against the youth, as against one struggling and unwilling to die: but rather, that he voluntarily surrendered himself. It was, however, scarcely possible that he would offer himself to death, unless he had been already made acquainted with the divine oracle: but Moses, passing by this, only recites that he was bound. Should any one object, that there was no necessity to bind one who willingly offered himself to death; I answer, that the holy man an...

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 22:9. _AND BOUND ISAAC HIS SON_] If the patriarch had not been upheld by the conviction that he was doing the _will_ of God, and had he not felt the most perfect confidence that his son should be _restored_ even _from the dead_, what agony must his heart have felt at every step of the journey, and through all the circumstances of this extraordinary business? What must his affectionate heart have felt at the questions asked by his innocent and amiable son? What must he have suffered while building the altar, laying on the wood, binding his lovely son, placing him on the wood, taking the knife, and stretching out his hand to slay the child of his hopes? Every view we take of the subject interests the heart, and exalts the character of this father of the faithful. But has the character of Isaac been duly considered? Is not the consideration of _his_ excel...

- 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 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 on it; and where Noah built one when he came out of the ark, and is the altar on which Cain and Abel offered; and where the first man offered when he was created, and from whence he was created.'' And so the Targum of Jonathan, and other Jewish writers g. The Mahometans say h, that Meena or Muna, a place about two or three miles from Mecca, is the place where Abraham went to offer up his son Isaac, and therefore in this place they sacrifice their sheep. AND ABRAHAM BUILT AN ALTAR THERE; of the earth, and turf upon it he found on the mount, erected an altar for sacrifice, even for the sacrific...

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

LAID The typical lessons here are: (1) Isaac, type of Christ "obedient unto death" (Philippians 2:5). (2) Abraham, type of the Father, who "spared not His own son, but delivered Him up for us all" (John 3:16); (Romans 8:32). (3) the ram, type of substitution -- Christ offered as a burnt-offering in our stead, (Hebrews 10:5). (4) Compare resurrection (Hebrews 11:17); (James 2:21)....

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 ...