Genesis 22:2

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:1-8

Genesis 22:1-8 It is by trial that the character of a Christian is formed. Each part of his character, like every part of his armour, is put to the proof; and it is the proof that tests, after all, the strength both of resistance and defence and attack. I. The voice of God to Abraham was not heard in audible words; it was a voice in the soul constantly directing him to duty and self-sacrifice. The voice told him, as he thought, I do not for a moment say as God meant, that his duty was to... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:1-19

Genesis 22:1-19 . Abraham is the first, if not the greatest, of the heroes of the Hebrew people. A man dazed by life's illusions, a dreamer of strange dreams and a seer of impossible visions, he has yet a firm hold of solid fact, and is ready, in the spirit of the Pilgrim Fathers, to cross the Euphrates and travel to Damascus, that he may separate himself from idolatry. From his many days of trial, take those in which he needs the strength of God the most, and see whether he has it, what he... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 22:1-24

Chapter 22Now it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham ( Genesis 22:1 ),Or tested Abraham or proved Abraham. "Let no man, when he is tempted, say that he is tempted of God: because God never tempts a man to do evil" ( James 1:13 ). Our enticements to evil come from our own flesh, the lust of our own flesh. God doesn't tempt you to do evil things. God does test us. Jesus went through great testings and He learned obedience through the things that He suffered.We as... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 22:1-24

Genesis 22:1-18 . God did tempt Abraham, who had now attained the height of all his earthly joys; and seen in Isaac the long-suspended promises fulfilled. He saw nature aided by divine power in his birth, and in his conduct daily proofs of genius, of piety, and filial obedience. The lad everywhere accompanied his aged father, and gained on his affections, not less by his love of virtue than by his other engaging qualities, and hopeful indications of future greatness. In such circumstances... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 22:1-18

Genesis 22:1-18God did tempt AbrahamThe trial of AbrahamI.THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF ABRAHAM WHEN THIS TRIAL CAME. His hope was set on Isaac as the medium through which God’s promise could be fulfilled, and he had been encouraged by observing him rising year after year to the age and stature of manhood. II. GOD’S CONNECTION WITH THE TRIAL. He subjected Abraham to a testing trial in order to prove his faith. 1. There was no attempt in the action of God, bearing upon Abraham, in the least to diminish... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 22:2

Gen 22:2 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. Ver. 2. Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, &c. ] This was the last of Abraham’s ten trials, and the sorest. All our troubles to this are but as the stivers and chips of that cross upon which this good patriarch was crucified. Origen hence persuades parents to bear patiently... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 22:2

Take: Genesis 17:19, Genesis 21:12, John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Romans 8:32, Hebrews 11:17, 1 John 4:9, 1 John 4:10 Moriah: 2 Chronicles 3:1 and offer: Judges 11:31, Judges 11:39, 2 Kings 3:27, Micah 6:7 Reciprocal: Genesis 21:3 - General Genesis 21:11 - because Genesis 22:9 - place Exodus 4:4 - put forth Exodus 29:18 - a burnt offering Leviticus 1:3 - a burnt Leviticus 17:5 - in the open Numbers 23:3 - burnt 1 Kings 17:13 - make me thereof 1 Kings 17:17 - the son of the woman 2 Kings 4:20 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Genesis 22:2

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.And he said, take thy son — Not thy bullocks and thy lambs; how willingly would Abraham have parted with them by thousands to redeem Isaac! Not thy servant, no, not the steward of thine house.Thine only son — Thine only son by Sarah. Ishmael was lately cast out, to the grief of Abraham, and now... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:2

2. He said Doubtless in some open and positive way . There is no evidence that this word came by a vision of the night . Least of all should we give countenance to the strange fancy that Abraham was imposed upon by Satan, and tempted, by observing human sacrifices among the heathen, to suppose that the sacrifice of Isaac would be acceptable to God. If such were the fact, the sacred writer fell into a most unfortunate style of recording the truth. Take now thy son This command is... read more