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Commentaries on Genesis 22:9

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Genesis 22 In this chapter we have an account of an order given by God to Abraham to sacrifice his son, Genesis 22:1; of his readiness to obey the will of God, he immediately preparing everything for that purpose, Genesis 22:3, of the order being reversed, and another sacrifice substituted in its room, which occasioned the giving a new name to the place where it was done, Genesis...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And they came to the place which God had told him of,.... Mount Moriah. Maimonides (f) 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...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

We have here the famous story of Abraham's offering up his son Isaac, that is, his offering to offer him, which is justly looked upon as one of the wonders of the church. Here is, I. The strange command which God gave to Abraham concerning it, ver. 1, 2. II. Abraham's strange obedience to this command, ver. 3-10. III. The strange issue of this trial. 1. The sacrificing of Isaac was countermanded,...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, See him pulling out the large, rough, unhewn stones that lay round about the place, and then fling them up into an altar.

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

And laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. So that, in intent and purpose, he had consummated the sacrifice, and therefore we read in Hebrew 11:17, “By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only-begotten...