# Genesis 22 📖: The Lord Will Provide [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[-Genesis Overview]] | [[Genesis 21]] | [[Genesis 23]] > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] > [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights]] > [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] > [[#✝️ Christ in This Chapter]] > [[#🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application]] > [[#💬 Discussion Questions]] > [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🔗 Related Passages]] > [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] > [[#📂 Internal Notes]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) [[#Overall.]] ## Abraham’s Faith Tested [[Testing of God (What are Tests)]] [[#Verse 01.]] Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham replied. [[#Verse 02.]] God said, “Take your son—your only son, whom you love, Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.” [[#Verse 03.]] Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about. [[#Verse 04.]] On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance. [[#Verse 05.]] So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.” [[#Verse 06.]] Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together. [[#Verse 07.]] Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father?” “What is it, my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?” [[#Verse 08.]] “God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together. [[#Verse 09.]] When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. [[#Verse 10.]] Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son. [[#Verse 11.]] But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered. [[#Verse 12.]] “Do not harm the boy!” the angel said. “Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.” [[#Verse 13.]] Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. [[#Verse 14.]] And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.” [[#Verse 15.]] The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven [[#Verse 16.]] and said, “I solemnly swear by my own name, decrees the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, [[#Verse 17.]] I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies. [[#Verse 18.]] Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.” [[#Verse 19.]] Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed. [[#Verse 20.]] After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor— [[#Verse 21.]] Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), [[#Verse 22.]] Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” [[#Verse 23.]] (Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor. [[#Verse 24.]] His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children—Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. ## 📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary ###### Overall. - Some Jewish commentators say that Sarah either separated from Abraham or at least did not want to be close to Abraham anymore after finding out about what had happened between Abraham and Isaac. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights 1. Genesis 22:2 is the first time the word "love" appears in the Bible. 2. Moriah (22:2) is identified as the mountain where Solomon later built the temple (2 Chronicles 3:1). 3. Isaac carried the wood up the mountain (22:6), which many see as a picture of Jesus carrying His cross. 4. Abraham told his servants that he and the boy would return (22:5), showing his faith. 5. Jewish tradition calls this story the *Akedah*, "the binding" of Isaac. 6. The journey to Moriah took three days (22:4). 7. "The Lord provides" is *Yahweh Yireh* (22:14). 8. Hebrews 11:19 says Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead. 9. Hebrews 6:13 points to this oath: since there was no one greater, God swore by Himself (22:16). 10. The chapter ends by introducing Rebekah (22:23), preparing for Isaac's marriage. ## 🧠 Chapter Summary > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## ✝️ Christ in This Chapter Christ is the Lamb God provided. Abraham told Isaac that God would provide the lamb (22:8), and God did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all (Romans 8:32). ## 🔎 Key Observations / 🛟 Life Application > [!note] 🌱 Still growing. This section is on its way. ## 💬 Discussion Questions 1. God tested Abraham by asking for what he loved most (22:1-2). What does it look like to hold our blessings with open hands? 2. Abraham believed God could raise Isaac from the dead (Hebrews 11:17-19). How does resurrection hope change obedience? 3. Abraham named the place "The Lord provides" (22:14). How has God provided for you at the moment of need? ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - 📖 verse 2: God asks Abraham to offer his only son, whom he loves. - 📖 verse 8: God will provide the lamb. - 📖 verse 14: Abraham names the place "The Lord provides." ## 🔗 Related Passages - 🔗 [[Hebrews 11#Verse 17.|Hebrews 11:17-19]] - Abraham offered Isaac by faith. - 🔗 [[Romans 08#Verse 32.|Romans 8:32]] - God did not spare His own Son. - 🔗 [[John 01#Verse 29.|John 1:29]] - Behold, the Lamb of God. - 🔗 [[John 03#Verse 16.|John 3:16]] - God gave His only Son. - 🔗 [[2 Chronicles 03#Verse 01.|2 Chronicles 3:1]] - The temple built on Mount Moriah. ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection 📝 SOAP: [[Genesis 22- SOAP|Trust God in the Hard Days]] ## 📂 Internal Notes