Genesis 22:6-10 NIV

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 22:6

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 22:6

Took the wood - and laid it upon Isaac - Probably the mountain-top to which they were going was too difficult to be ascended by the ass; therefore either the father or the son must carry the wood, and it was most becoming in the latter. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:7

Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb - Nothing can be conceived more tender, affectionate, and affecting, than the question of the son and the reply of the father on this occasion. A paraphrase would spoil it; nothing can be added without injuring those expressions of affectionate submission on the one hand, and dignified tenderness and simplicity on the other. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:8

My son, God will provide himself a lamb - Here we find the same obedient unshaken faith for which this pattern of practical piety was ever remarkable. But we must not suppose that this was the language merely of faith and obedience; the patriarch spoke prophetically, and referred to that Lamb of God which He had provided for himself, who in the fullness of time should take away the sin of the world, and of whom Isaac was a most expressive type. All the other lambs which had been offered from... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:9

And bound Isaac his son - If the patriarch had not been upheld by the conviction that he was doing the will of God, and had he not felt the most perfect confidence that his son should be restored even from the dead, what agony must his heart have felt at every step of the journey, and through all the circumstances of this extraordinary business? What must his affectionate heart have felt at the questions asked by his innocent and amiable son? What must he have suffered while building the... read more

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

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 22:6

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:7

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:8

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 22:9

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