Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,

Received

General references

Bible References

Received

Hebrews 7:6
But this person [Melchizedek] who is not from their Levitical ancestry received tithes from Abraham and blessed him who possessed the promises [of God].

Offered

2 Corinthians 8:12
For if the eagerness [to give] is there, it is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.

Only

Genesis 22:2
God said, “Take now your son, your only son [of promise], whom you love, Isaac, and go to the region of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
John 3:16
“For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life.

General references

Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and then he got up and went to the place of which God had told him.