Genesis 22:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

Take

1 John 4:9

Moriah

2 Chronicles 3:1

And offer

Judges 11:31

2 Kings 3:27

Micah 6:7

General references

Genesis 21:3

Bible References

Take

But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his future offspring.

But God said to Abraham, “Do not be concerned about the boy and your slave. Whatever Sarah says to you, listen to her, because your offspring will be traced through Isaac.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

He did not even spare His own Son
but offered Him up for us all;
how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. He received the promises and he was offering his unique son,

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent His One and Only Son into the world so that we might live through Him.

Moriah

Then Solomon began to build the Lord’s temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah where the Lord

had appeared to his father David, at the site David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And offer

whatever comes out of the doors of my house to greet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites will belong to the Lord, and I will offer it as a burnt offering.”

So he took his firstborn son, who was to become king in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. Great wrath was on the Israelites, and they withdrew from him and returned to their land.

Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams
or with ten thousand streams of oil?
Should I give my firstborn for my transgression,
the child of my body for my own sin?

General references

Abraham named his son who was born to him—the one Sarah bore to him—Isaac.