Isaac in the Bible
Meaning: laughter
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But God said, “No. Your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac.
But I will confirm My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
Abraham named his son who was born to him—the one Sarah bore to him—Isaac.
When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.
Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
Now [as time went on] Sarah saw [Ishmael] the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham,
So she said to Abraham, “Drive out this slave with her son, for the son of this slave will not be a coheir with my son Isaac!”
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be concerned
“Take your son,” He said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love,
So Abraham got up early in the morning,
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac.
Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father.”
And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”
Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac
And take an oath by the Lord, the God of heaven and the God of the earth, that you will not get a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites among whom I am living;
but will go to my land and my family to take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Let the girl to whom I say, ‘Please lower your water jug so that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels also’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
Now Isaac was returning from Beer-lahai-roi,
In the early evening Isaac went out to walk
Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she got down from her camel
Then the servant told Isaac everything he had done.
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah to be his wife. Isaac loved her, and he was comforted after his mother’s death.
Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.
And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.
His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah
After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.
These are the family records of Isaac son of Abraham. Abraham fathered Isaac.
Isaac was 40 years old when he took as his wife Rebekah
Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife because she was childless.
After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel with his hand.
Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
There was another famine in the land in addition to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time.
The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
When Isaac had been there for some time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see
Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.
Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that year he reaped
They filled in with sand all of the wells that Isaac's father Abraham's servants had dug during his lifetime.
And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
So Isaac left there, camped in the Valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.
Then Isaac’s slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Quarrel
His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.
Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, "For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land."
So he built an altar there,
Later, Abimelech traveled from Gerar to visit Isaac. He arrived with Ahuzzath, his staff advisor, and Phicol, the commanding officer of his army.
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you.”
So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.
They got up early in the morning and swore an oath to each other.
On that same day Isaac’s slaves came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, “We have found water!”
So Isaac named the well Shebah, which is why the city is named Beer-sheba to this day.
They made life bitter
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could not see,
And he answered, “Here I am.”
Isaac said, "Since I am so old, I could die at any time.
Now Rebekah was listening to what Isaac said to his son Esau. So while Esau went to the field to hunt some game to bring in,
He went to his father and said, "My father!" Isaac replied, "Here I am. Which are you, my son?"
But Isaac said to his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?”
He replied, “Because the Lord your God worked it out for me.”
Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau or not?”
So Jacob came closer to his father Isaac. When he touched him, he said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
He did not recognize him because his hands were hairy, like his brother Esau's hands. So Isaac blessed Jacob.
Then Isaac said, “Bring the food to me, and I will eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” He brought it to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine and he drank.
Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come closer and kiss me, my son.”
So he came closer and kissed him. When Isaac smelled
is like the smell of a field
that the Lord has blessed.
As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left the presence of his father Isaac, his brother Esau arrived from the hunt.
But his father Isaac said to him, “Who are you?”
He answered, “I am Esau your firstborn son.”
Isaac began to tremble uncontrollably. “Who was it then,” he said, “who hunted game and brought it to me? I ate it all before you came in, and I blessed him. Indeed, he will be blessed!”
When Esau realized what his father Isaac was saying, he began to wail out loud bitterly. "Bless me," he cried, "even me, too, my father!"
Isaac said, “Your brother came deceitfully and has [fraudulently] taken away your blessing [for himself].”
But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him a master over you, have given him all of his relatives as his servants, and have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then can I do for you, my son?”
Then his father Isaac answered him:
away from the richness of the land,
away from the dew of the sky above.
So Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m sick of my life because of these Hittite women.
Isaac summoned Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him: “Don’t take a wife from the Canaanite women.
So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.
Esau noticed that Isaac blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to get a wife there. When he blessed him, Isaac commanded Jacob, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.”
Esau realized that his father Isaac disapproved of the Canaanite women,
Yahweh was standing there beside him,
He took all the livestock and possessions he had acquired in Paddan-aram, and he drove his herds to go to the land of his father Isaac in Canaan.
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, the Fear of Isaac, had not been with me, certainly now you would have sent me off empty-handed. But God has seen my affliction and my hard work,
The God of Abraham, and the gods
Then Jacob said, “God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac,
that I gave to Abraham and Isaac.
And I will give the land
to your future descendants.
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre
Isaac lived 180 years.
And Isaac expired and died, and was gathered to his peoples, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba,
Then he blessed Joseph and said:
the God who has been my shepherd
may He bless these boys.
And may they be called by my name
and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac,
and may they grow to be numerous within the land.
“The blessings of your father
Are greater than the blessings of my ancestors [Abraham and Isaac]
Up to the utmost bound of the everlasting hills;
They shall be on the head of Joseph,
Even on the crown of the head of him who was the distinguished one and the one who is prince among (separate from) his brothers.
Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried there,
Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die,
So God heard their groaning, and He remembered
Then He continued, “I am the God of your father,
God also said to Moses, “Say this to the Israelites: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever;
“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.
“This will take place,” He continued, “so they will believe that Yahweh, the God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has appeared to you.”
I appeared to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob as God Almighty, but I did not reveal My name Yahweh to them.
And I have also heard the groaning of the sons of Israel, whom the Egyptians have enslaved, and I have [faithfully] remembered My covenant [with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob].
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