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Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 22:3-10

We have here Abraham's obedience to this severe command. Being tried, he offered up Isaac, Heb. 11:17. Observe, I. The difficulties which he broke through in this act of obedience. Much might have been objected against it; as, 1. It seemed directly against an antecedent law of God, which forbids murder, under a severe penalty, Gen. 9:5, 6. Now can the unchangeable God contradict himself? He that hates robbery for burnt-offering (Isa. 61:8) cannot delight in murder for it. 2. How would it... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:4

Then on the third day ,.... After he had received the command from God, and from his setting out on his journey; for he had now travelled two days, Mount Moriah being forty miles from Beersheba, where Abraham dwelt F19 Bunting's Travels, p. 57. ; or, as others compute it, forty: Hebron F20 Reland. Palestina illustrata, tom. 2. p. 620. was twenty miles from Beersheba, and Jerusalem twenty two from Hebron; and to travel twenty miles a day on foot, as Isaac and the servants seem to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:5

And Abraham said unto the young men, abide you here with the ass ,.... At the place from whence he had his first sight of Mount Moriah: he chose not to take his two servants with him, lest when they saw him binding his son, and going about to sacrifice him, they should lay hold upon him, and restrain him from doing it; and to prevent this he takes this precaution, which shows how fully intent he was to yield obedience to the divine precept: and I and the lad will go yonder and worship ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:6

And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering ,.... Which Josephus F1 Antiqu. l. 1. c. 13. sect. 2. says was laid upon the ass, and carried by that; and if so, he took it from thence: but it is probable it was carried by his two servants, since it was not more than Isaac himself afterwards carried, as in the next clause: and laid it upon Isaac his son : who was a grown man, and able to carry it: in this also he was a type of Christ, on whom the wood of his cross was laid, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:7

And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father ,.... As they were walking together: and said, my father ; a cutting word to Abraham, who knew what he was going to do with him, so contrary to the relation and affection of a parent: and he said, here am I, my son ; what hast thou to say to me? I am ready to answer thee; he owns the relation he stood in unto him, a sense of which he had not put off, and curbs his affections, which must be inwardly moving towards him, and showed great... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:8

And Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering ,.... In which answer Abraham may have respect to the Messiah, the Lamb of God, John 1:29 , whom he had provided in council and covenant before the world was; and who in promise, and type, and figure, was slain from the foundation of the world, Revelation 13:8 ; and whom in due time God would send into the world, John 10:36 , and make him an offering for sin, Isaiah 53:10 , and accept of him in the room... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:9

And they came to the place which God had told him of ,.... Mount Moriah. Maimonides F6 Hilchot Beth Habechirah, c. 2. sect. 1. 2. says,"it is a tradition in or by the hands of all, that this is the place where David and Solomon built an altar in the threshing floor of Araunah, the Jebusite, and where Abraham built an altar, and bound Isaac on it; and where Noah built one when he came out of the ark, and is the altar on which Cain and Abel offered; and where the first man offered when... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:10

And Abraham stretched forth his hand ,.... All things being ready for execution, the altar built, the wood laid on it, the sacrifice bound and laid on that, nothing remained but to cut the throat of the sacrifice; and in order to that, the instrument for it laying by him, he put forth his hand, one would think in a trembling manner, for it is enough to make one tremble to think of it: and took the knife to slay his son ; with a full intention to do it, which was carrying his obedience to... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:4

The third day - "As the number Seven," says Mr. Ainsworth, "is of especial use in Scripture because of the Sabbath day, Genesis 2:2 , so Three is a mystical number because of Christ's rising from the dead the third day, Matthew 17:23 ; 1 Corinthians 15:4 ; as he was crucified the third hour after noon, Mark 15:25 ; : and Isaac, as he was a figure of Christ, in being the only son of his father, and not spared but offered for a sacrifice, Romans 8:32 , so in sundry particulars he... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:5

I and the lad will go and come again - How could Abraham consistently with truth say this, when he knew he was going to make his son a burnt-offering? The apostle answers for him: By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac - accounting that God was able to raise him up even from the dead, from whence also he received him in a figure, Hebrews 11:17 , Hebrews 11:19 . He knew that previously to the birth of Isaac both he and his wife were dead to all the purposes of procreation;... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Genesis 22:3-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:4

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:5

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