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But God replied, "No, but your wife Sarah will give birth to your son, and you are to name him Isaac. I'll confirm my covenant with him as an eternal covenant for his descendants.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamBearingThe Eternal CovenantGod Naming PeopleGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Promise Of A Babysarah

Now as to Isaac, I'll confirm my covenant with him, to whom Sarah will give birth as your son at this time next year."

Verse ConceptsGod's Covenant With The PatriarchsThe Time AppointedAbrahamic Covenantcovenantsarah

Abraham named his son who was born to him Isaac the very one whom Sarah bore for him!

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming Peoplesarah

On the eighth day after his son Isaac had been born, Abraham circumcised him, just as God had commanded him.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTLess Than A Year OldGod's Orders

Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

Verse ConceptsThe Age At FatherhoodThe Promise Of A Babysarah

The child grew and eventually was weaned, so Abraham threw a tremendous banquet on the very day Isaac was weaned.

Verse ConceptsFeastingBanquets, Events CelebratedWeaningGrowing Upsarah

Nevertheless, when Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian whom Hagar had borne to Abraham making fun of Isaac,

Verse ConceptsConcubinesAbraham, Testing And VictorySeeing PeopleSportsFunsarahmistress

she told Abraham, "Throw out this slave girl, along with her son, because this slave's son will never be a co-heir with my son Isaac!"

Verse ConceptsInheritance, MaterialFamilyQuarrelsOld Testament People As Typessarah

but God told Abraham, "Don't be troubled about the youth and your slave girl. Pay attention to Sarah in everything she tells you, because your offspring are to be named through Isaac.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamProphecies Concerning ChristPay Attention To People!sarah

God said, "Please take your son, your unique son whom you love Isaac and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering there on one of the mountains that I will point out to you."

Verse ConceptsCalvaryAbrahamAtonement, Types OfLove, And The WorldSuffering, Of Jesus ChristWorship, Acceptable AttitudesWorship, Places OfThe Only ChildSacrificing The FirstbornOnly Child Of PeopleThose Who Loved

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his male servants with him, along with his son Isaac. He cut the wood for the burnt offering and set out to go to the place about which God had spoken to him.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamDonkeysMorningAnimals, Types OfRising EarlySplitting WoodFirewoodThose Who Rose EarlyPreparing To TravelSaddling DonkeysTwo Other Men

Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. Abraham carried the fire and the knife. And so the two of them went on together.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamKnifesGoing TogetherBurning SacrificesFirewoodCarrying Other Loads

Isaac addressed his father Abraham: "My father!" "I'm here, my son," Abraham replied. Isaac asked, "The fire and the wood are here, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering?"

Verse ConceptsFireLambsBurning SacrificesFirewoodBehold Me!Sheep And GoatsWhere Are Things?

The two of them went on together and came to the place about which God had spoken. Abraham built an altar there, arranged the wood, tied up his son Isaac, and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

Verse ConceptsAltarsAbrahamBindingPutting In OrderBuilding AltarsFirewoodTying Up

Instead, you are to go to my country and to my family and acquire a wife for my son Isaac."

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarrying RelativesTaking A Wife

May it be that the young woman to whom I ask, "Please, lower your jug so that I may drink,' responds, "Have a drink, and I'll water your camels as well.' May she be the one whom you have chosen for your servant Isaac. This is how I'll know that you have shown your gracious love to my master."

Verse ConceptsDrinksWater ContainersRequesting FoodMan Providing WaterSeeking A SignGod Appointing OthersGiving In Marriage

Later on, as Isaac was returning one evening from Beer-lahai-roi (he had been living in the Negev),

Isaac went out walking in a field. He looked up, and all of a sudden there were some camels coming.

Verse ConceptsEveningRelationships With Boyfriendphotography

Rebekah looked up, and when she saw Isaac, she quickly dismounted from her camel

Verse ConceptsDismountingSeeing People

"That's my master," the servant told her. So she reached for a veil and covered herself. Then the servant informed Isaac about everything he had done.

Verse ConceptsTelling What People Did

Later, Isaac brought Rebekah into the tent that had belonged to his mother Sarah and married her. Isaac loved her, and that's how he was comforted following the loss of his mother.

Verse ConceptsHusbandsLove, In RelationshipsMarriage, Purpose OfTentsGod's Mercy, Example OfComfort, Of FriendsCourtingMen And Women Who LovedMothers Deathmomslosing a loved oneDeath Of A MotherLoss Of A Loved One

While he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to his concubines and sent them to the east country in order to keep them away from his son Isaac.

Verse ConceptsGroups Sent Away

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field that used to belong to Zohar the Hittite's son Ephron.

Verse ConceptsCavesCaves For BuryingCaves Used As Graves

After Abraham's death, God blessed his son Isaac, who continued to live near Beer-lahai-roi.

Verse ConceptsBlessed By God

This is the account of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham fathered Isaac.

Verse ConceptsparentingFamily Conflict

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsNamed Sisters

After that, his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.

Verse ConceptsHeelsGraspingPeople With Apt NamesTwin Brothers

Later on, a famine swept through the land. This famine was different from the previous famine that had occurred earlier, during Abraham's lifetime. So Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

Verse ConceptsFamine, Examples OfAppearances Of God In OtTimes Of People

That's when the LORD appeared to Isaac. "You are not to go down to Egypt," he said. "Instead, you are to settle down in an area within this land where I'll tell you.

Verse ConceptsGod AppearingGod Forbiddingland

So Isaac lived in Gerar.

After he had been there awhile, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out through a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Verse ConceptsLooking Through WindowsAfter A Long TimeSportshugs

So Abimelech called Isaac and confronted him. "She is definitely your wife!" he accused him, "So why did you claim, "She's my sister?'" Isaac responded, "Because I had thought ""otherwise, I'll die on account of her.'"

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

They filled in with sand all of the wells that Isaac's father Abraham's servants had dug during his lifetime.

Verse ConceptsExcavationStopping WellsTimes Of People

Then Abimelech ordered Isaac, "Move away from us! You've become more powerful than we are."

So Isaac moved from there and encamped in the Gerar Valley, where he settled.

Verse ConceptsCamp, Of IsraelValleysLeavingMoving To A New Place

Isaac re-excavated some wells that his father had first dug during his lifetime, because the Philistines had filled them with sand after Abraham's death. Isaac renamed those wells with the same names that his father had called them.

Verse ConceptsStopping WellsPeople Naming ThingsTimes Of People

While Isaac's servants were digging in the valley, they discovered a well with flowing water.

Verse ConceptsExcavation

But the herdsmen who lived in Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen. "The water is ours," they said. As a result, Isaac named the well Esek, for they had fiercely disputed with him about it.

Verse ConceptsServants, BadDishonesty, Examples OfPeople Possessing Other ThingsPeople Naming ThingsStock Keeping

When his workers started digging another well, those herdsmen quarreled about that one, too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

Verse ConceptsExcavationPeople OpposedPeople Naming Things

Then he left that area and dug still another well. Because they did not quarrel over that one, Isaac named it Rehoboth, because he used to say, "The LORD has enlarged the territory for us. We will prosper in the land."

Verse ConceptsAbundance, MaterialExcavationPotential Of FruitSpacious PlacePeople Naming ThingsFreedomMoving To A New Placespacefruitfulnessland

In response, Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He also pitched his tents there and his servants dug a well.

Verse ConceptsAltarsCalling upon GodNomadsTentsAltars, Built ByBuilding AltarsExcavation

Later, Abimelech traveled from Gerar to visit Isaac. He arrived with Ahuzzath, his staff advisor, and Phicol, the commanding officer of his army.

Verse Conceptsadvisers

"Why have you come to see me," Isaac asked them, "since you hate me so much that you sent me away from you?"

Verse ConceptsWhy Do You Do This?Hating Individuals

They woke up early the next morning and made the treaty. After this, Isaac sent them off and they left on peaceful terms.

Verse ConceptsSealing A CovenantRising EarlyThose Who Rose EarlyGoing In Peace

That very same day, Isaac's servants arrived and reported to him about a well that they had just completed digging. "We've found water!" they said.

Verse ConceptsFinding ThingsTelling What People Did

So Isaac named the well Shebah, which is why the city is named Beer-sheba to this day.

Verse ConceptsSwearing OathsGiven Names To This DayPeople Naming Things

This brought extreme grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

Verse ConceptsTroubling Individuals

Now Rebekah overheard Isaac while he was speaking to his son Esau. When Esau had gone out to the field to hunt and bring in some game,

Verse ConceptsListening

"How did you get it so quickly, my son?" Isaac asked. Jacob responded, ""because the LORD your God made me successful."

Verse ConceptsPeople OvercomingWork Soon Done

So Isaac told Jacob, "Come here, my son, so I can feel you and know for sure whether or not you're my son Esau."

Verse ConceptsDistinguishingIs It Really?Contact With People

He didn't recognize Jacob, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau, so Isaac blessed him.

Verse ConceptsHairy PeopleNot Recognising PeoplePeople Who Blessed Others

"Come closer to me," Isaac replied, "so I can eat some of the game, my son, and then bless you." So Jacob came closer, and Isaac ate. Jacob also brought wine so his father could drink.

Verse ConceptsWineProviding WinePeople Blessing

After this, Jacob's father Isaac told him, "Come closer and kiss me, my son."

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingContact With People

So Jacob drew closer to kiss him. When Isaac smelled the scent of his son's clothes, he blessed him and said, "How my son's scent is the fragrance of the field that the LORD has blessed.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingNosesContact With PeopleBlessed By GodPeople Who Blessed Others

Just after Isaac had finished blessing Jacob and Jacob had left his father Isaac, Jacob's brother Esau returned from hunting,

Verse ConceptsGoing Outside

But his father Isaac asked him, "Who are you?" "I'm Esau, your firstborn son," he answered.

Verse ConceptsFirstborn SonsWho Is This?This Is Me

At this, Isaac began to tremble violently. "Who then," he asked, "hunted some game and brought it to me to eat before you arrived, so that I've blessed him? Indeed, he is blessed."

Verse ConceptsTremblingIndividuals TremblingWho Is This?People Blessing

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!"

Verse ConceptsResentment, Against PeopleSelf PitySuffering, Emotional Aspects OfVoicesBeing BitterPeople BlessingBitterness

Isaac replied, "Your brother came here deceitfully and stole your blessing."

Verse ConceptsInjustice, Examples OfPeople BlessingThose Who Deceived

In response, Isaac told Esau, "Look! I've predicted that he's going to become your master, and I've assigned all his brothers to be his servants. What then can I do for you, my son?"

Verse ConceptsServing PeopleProviding Wine

At this, his father Isaac replied to him, "Look! Away from the fertile land will be your dwellings; away from the dew of the skies above.

Verse ConceptsdewLack Of Rain

Later, Isaac called Jacob and blessed him, instructing him, "Don't marry a wife from the local Canaanite women.

Verse ConceptsRacial PrejudiceWives, Duties OfIntermarriageOthers SummoningMen's OrdersPeople Who Blessed OthersInterracial Marriage

So Isaac sent Jacob off toward Paddan-aram to visit Bethuel's son Laban, the Aramean and brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Verse ConceptsJacob, Life And Character Of

Esau noticed that after Isaac had blessed Jacob as he was sending him off to Paddan-aram to marry a wife from there, he had instructed Jacob, "Don't marry a Canaanite woman."

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTaking A WifePeople Who Blessed Others

Esau realized that Canaan women didn't please his father Isaac,

Verse ConceptsSeeing SituationsTroubling Individualshumor

And there was the LORD, standing above it and telling Jacob, "I am the LORD God of your grandfather Abraham. I'm Isaac's God, too. I'm giving you and your descendants the ground on which you're sleeping.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftI Am Godgrandfathers

and drove all his livestock ahead of him, with everything that belonged to him, including the livestock that he had bought and accumulated in Paddan-aram, intending to deliver them to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

Verse ConceptsDriving

If the God of my father the God of Abraham, the God whom Isaac feared had not been with me, you would have sent me away empty handed. But God saw my misery and how hard I've worked with my own hands and he rebuked you last night."

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersFear Of God, Examples OfGod Seeing Their AfflictionEmpty HandedGod For UsGod Sending His SonI Am SufferingThose Who ToiledGod Requite Them!

Then Jacob prayed, "O God of my father Abraham, O God of my father Isaac, O LORD, you who told me, "Return to your country and to your relatives and I'll cause things to go well for you.'

Verse ConceptsGod Doing GoodReturning to their landNamed Individuals Who Prayedgrandfathers

Now as for the land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I'm giving it to you and to your descendants who come after you. I'm giving the land to you!"

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftGod Gave The Land

So Jacob reached his father Isaac at Mamre, in Kiriath-arba (also known as Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived.

Verse ConceptsSojourning

Later, Israel began his journey, taking along everything that he owned, and arrived at Beer-sheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Verse ConceptsRefugeesSacrifice, In Ot

the angel who has been rescuing me from all sorts of evil, bless these young men. May my name continue to live on within them, including the names of my ancestors Abraham and Isaac, and may they grow into a vast multitude throughout the earth."

Verse ConceptsPeople Naming PeopleAngels Looking After PeopleAngels Providing ProtectionMay God Bless!

It's where Abraham and his wife Sarah were buried, where Isaac and his wife Rebekah were buried, and where I buried Leah.

Verse ConceptsCaves For BuryingThe Cave Of Machpelahsarah

Later, Joseph told his brothers, "I'm going to die soon, but God will certainly provide for you and bring you up from this land to the land that he promised with an oath to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Verse ConceptsAssurance, basis ofProperty, LandThe Promised LandGod VisitingNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenDeath Approaching

Then he said, "I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.

Verse ConceptsGesturesAbraham, Family And DescendantsGod Of The FathersJacob, The PatriarchReverence, And ObedienceFear, Caused ByNot Seeing GodHiding From GodI Am GodThose Frightened Of Godfatherhood

God also told Moses, "Tell the Israelis, "The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsI Am The LordGod Sending ProphetsOther References To God's Name

"Go and gather the elders of Israel. Tell them, "The LORD God of your ancestors, appeared to me the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and he said, "I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

Verse Conceptselders, as community leadersWatchfulness, DivineAssembling LeadersGod AppearingGod Paid Attention To ThemThe Elders GatheredThe Elderly

God said, "I've done this so that they may believe that the LORD God of their ancestors the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob has appeared to you."

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersGod AppearingBelieving In GodOthers Believing In God

I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob as God Almighty, and did I not reveal to them my name "LORD'?

Verse ConceptsGod, Power OfLordship, Human And DivineGod AppearingHis Name Is The LordNames Involving GodGod's Things Concealed

I'll bring you to the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I'll give it to you as a possession. I am the LORD.'"

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsHomeHand Of GodProperty, LandThe Promised LandI Am The Lordland

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you swore by yourself as you told them, "I'll increase the number of your descendants like the stars of the heavens, I'll give your descendants all of this land about which I have spoken, and they are to possess it forever.'"

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersHeirsLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityServants Of The LordGolden CalvesEternal PossessionGod Swearing Blessings

The LORD told Moses, "Go up from here, you and the people whom you brought out of Egypt, to the land about which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob saying, "I'll give it to your descendants.'

Verse ConceptsAbrahamOaths, DivineBringing Israel Out Of EgyptGod Gave The LandOthers Bringing Israel Out Of Egypt

then I'll remember my covenant with Jacob, my covenant with Isaac, and my covenant with Abraham. I'll also remember the land.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersJacob, The PatriarchAncestorsGod Remembering His CovenantGod Keeps Covenant

"Not one of the men who went up from Egypt, from 20 years old and above, will see the land that I promised to give to their ancestors, that is, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because none of them followed me wholeheartedly,

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersJacob, The PatriarchExclusionAncestorsFollowing God

Look! I've given you the land that lies ahead. Go in and possess the land that I, the LORD, promised to give to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as well as to their descendants.'"

Verse ConceptsBlessings, To AbrahamGod Of The FathersJacob, The PatriarchPossessingAncestorsprocessland

"When the LORD your God brings you to the land that he promised to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, he will give you large and beautiful cities that you didn't build,

Verse ConceptsCityLargenessBuilding CitiesThe Promised LandCities In IsraelGod Gave The Land

On the contrary, it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the LORD is dispossessing them before you to confirm what the LORD promised by an oath to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAbraham, Family And DescendantsThe Lord Will Drive Them Out

Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Don't pay attention to the stubbornness, wickedness, and sinfulness of this people.

Verse ConceptsGod Of The FathersServanthood, In Life Of BelieversSelf Will

so that he will elevate you to be a people for him. And he will be God to you, just as he promised you and swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Verse ConceptsAncestorsGod Swearing BlessingsHe Is Our God

Love the LORD your God, obey his voice, and cling to him, because he is your life even your long life so that you may live in the land that the LORD promised to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Verse ConceptsCommitment, to GodGod, Living And Self sustainingGod, The CreatorGod Of The FathersOrigins Of Spiritual LifeLove Towards God, Results InAncestorsLife Through Keeping The LawThe Need To Love God