{"id":212,"date":"2022-11-01T09:28:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T09:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblefactory.org\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2022-11-01T15:46:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T15:46:18","slug":"genesis-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefactory.org\/blog\/bible-studies\/genesis-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis\u00a022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The sacrifice of lssak in Gn22 occupies an important place within the Christian tradition as a&nbsp;<strong>foreshadowing&nbsp;of&nbsp;(pointing&nbsp;to)the&nbsp;sacrifice&nbsp;of&nbsp;Christ.&nbsp;<\/strong>Yet&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;surprising&nbsp;to&nbsp;note&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;New&nbsp;Testament makes no reference to&nbsp;this section of text.&nbsp;The only text that seems to&nbsp;refer to this passage is Rm 8&nbsp;:32&nbsp;<em>&#8220;How will&nbsp;He, who did&nbsp;not spare even His own&nbsp;Son&nbsp;but&nbsp;gave&nbsp;Him up for&nbsp;us all, not also with Him give us all things?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At&nbsp;the&nbsp;time, the&nbsp;well-known&nbsp;philosopher&nbsp;Kiekegaard&nbsp;had a very&nbsp;hard&nbsp;time with this. He&nbsp;thought it&nbsp;was &#8220;illogical&#8221;.&nbsp;But in fact, God&#8217;s whole&nbsp;plan of salvation&nbsp;is &#8216;illogical&#8217;&nbsp;for&nbsp;us but&nbsp;divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;1.&nbsp;And&nbsp;it&nbsp;happened&nbsp;after&nbsp;these&nbsp;things&nbsp;that&nbsp;God&nbsp;put&nbsp;Abraham to&nbsp;the&nbsp;test.&nbsp;He&nbsp;said to&nbsp;him,&nbsp;Abraham!&nbsp;He&nbsp;said, Behold,&nbsp;here&nbsp;I&nbsp;am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To&nbsp;test&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;Hebrew&nbsp;word&nbsp;Nasah&nbsp;and&nbsp;is&nbsp;&#8220;to&nbsp;put&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;test&#8221;&nbsp;and&nbsp;&#8220;to&nbsp;test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One&nbsp;checks&nbsp;from&nbsp;certain&nbsp;expectations&nbsp;to&nbsp;see&nbsp;if&nbsp;a&nbsp;person&nbsp;meets them. Often followed&nbsp;by &#8216;to know&#8217;.&nbsp;See verse&nbsp;12&nbsp;&#8220;now I know&#8221;.&nbsp;In Ex.&nbsp;20:20 it says both&nbsp;<em>&#8216;testing&nbsp;<\/em>and&nbsp;<em>&#8216;fearing God&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/em>So here the link with testing and fearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham stood his ground; what would the people do?&nbsp;James makes it&nbsp;clear that&nbsp;God tests but does not tempt (James 1:13). Abaham had confidence in the Lord God. The&nbsp;Greek word &#8216;pistis&#8217; means &#8216;believe&#8217; but&nbsp;also &#8216;trust&#8217; and the two go hand in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is a certain word connection by which it&nbsp;may be coupled with &#8216;miracle&#8217;! A trial that comes from YHWH offers the possibility of a miracle on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God is going to&nbsp;see how far His faith will go. But, of&nbsp;course, God knows&nbsp;how it&nbsp;is going to&nbsp;end because His&nbsp;&#8216;plan of salvation&#8217; is going to&nbsp;work and it&nbsp;is&nbsp;going to succeed. Either way.&nbsp;Failure is not an&nbsp;option.&nbsp;For Abraham it&nbsp;will have been a special challenge. Read Jae. 2:&nbsp;23&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>&#8216;and&nbsp;the scripture is fulfilled which&nbsp;says, And&nbsp;Abraham believed God, and it&nbsp;was counted to&nbsp;him for righteousness, and he was called a friend of God&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This&nbsp;&#8216;here&nbsp;I am&#8217;&nbsp;is&nbsp;in&nbsp;Hebrew&nbsp;&#8216;present&#8217;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;2.&nbsp;He&nbsp;said,&nbsp;Take&nbsp;yet&nbsp;your&nbsp;son,&nbsp;your&nbsp;only&nbsp;one,&nbsp;whom&nbsp;you&nbsp;love,&nbsp;Isaac,&nbsp;go&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;land&nbsp;of&nbsp;Moriah, and offer him there as&nbsp;a&nbsp;burnt offering on&nbsp;one of the&nbsp;mountains&nbsp;which I will name you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;only,&nbsp;beloved son&nbsp;is,&nbsp;of course,&nbsp;Isaac,&nbsp;and&nbsp;is,&nbsp;of&nbsp;course,&nbsp;strongly reminiscent of Jesus,&nbsp;the beloved Son of God. When Jesus is baptized by&nbsp;John. Matt. 3:&nbsp;17&nbsp;<em>&#8220;And&nbsp;behold, a voice&nbsp;from heaven said, This is My&nbsp;beloved&nbsp;Son, in Whom I am well&nbsp;pleased!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hebrew word&nbsp;<em>&#8220;jehidecha&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em>(from&nbsp;<em>&#8220;jagid&#8217;)&nbsp;<\/em>is<em>&nbsp;<\/em>translated&nbsp;<em>&#8220;your only&nbsp;one,&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em>but&nbsp;also has the meaning of&nbsp;<em>&#8220;your precious, your beloved<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The land Moriah has been equated by Jewish tradition with the to Mount Moriah on which the temple was to&nbsp;be built. Because ofverse&nbsp;14&nbsp;<em>&#8216;the&nbsp;mountain of&nbsp;Yahweh&nbsp;shall&nbsp;be&nbsp;provided for&#8217;&nbsp;<\/em>and that therefore Isaac is&nbsp;sacrificed&nbsp;at the&nbsp;later Golgotha. But unlike the temple mount, the&nbsp;place God designates is in fact visible&nbsp;from&nbsp;afar.&nbsp;See&nbsp;verse 4. And&nbsp;Ps 125&nbsp;: 2&nbsp;<em>&#8216;Round&nbsp;about&nbsp;Jerusalem are mountains, so&nbsp;is&nbsp;the Lord round about His people, from henceforth to&nbsp;everlasting&#8217;.P<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;3.&nbsp;<strong>Then&nbsp;Abraham&nbsp;got&nbsp;up&nbsp;early&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;morning,&nbsp;saddled his&nbsp;donkey,&nbsp;took&nbsp;two&nbsp;of&nbsp;his&nbsp;servants with him, and Isaac his son. He split wood for&nbsp;the&nbsp;burnt offering,&nbsp;got&nbsp;up and went to&nbsp;the&nbsp;place&nbsp;God had called him.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;4.&nbsp;<strong>On&nbsp;the&nbsp;third&nbsp;day&nbsp;Abraham&nbsp;lifted&nbsp;up&nbsp;his&nbsp;eyes,&nbsp;and&nbsp;he&nbsp;saw&nbsp;that&nbsp;place&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;distance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;5.&nbsp;<strong>Abraham said to his servants: Stay here with the donkey, and&nbsp;<\/strong>I&nbsp;<strong>and the boy&nbsp;will go&nbsp;there.&nbsp;When&nbsp;wehave&nbsp;bowed&nbsp;down,&nbsp;we&nbsp;will&nbsp;return&nbsp;to&nbsp;you.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;6.&nbsp;<strong>Then&nbsp;Abraham&nbsp;took&nbsp;the&nbsp;wood&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;burnt&nbsp;offering and put&nbsp;it&nbsp;on&nbsp;his&nbsp;son&nbsp;Isaac.&nbsp;He himself&nbsp;took&nbsp;the&nbsp;fireand&nbsp;the&nbsp;knife&nbsp;in his&nbsp;hand.&nbsp;Thus&nbsp;they&nbsp;both&nbsp;went&nbsp;together.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abraham&#8217;s feelings are&nbsp;not&nbsp;described here.&nbsp;We&nbsp;can&nbsp;only&nbsp;guess&nbsp;at them.&nbsp;Only&nbsp;his&nbsp;actions are described here. Abraham does exactly what is asked of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>&#8220;when we&nbsp;bowed down&#8221;&nbsp;<\/em>is&nbsp;a typical&nbsp;designation. It&nbsp;actually means bowing&nbsp;down to&nbsp;God during the sacrifice. Actually, &#8216;when we have worshipped&#8217;&nbsp;or&nbsp;<em>&#8216;when we&nbsp;have worshipped&#8217;&nbsp;<\/em>here is the&nbsp;Hebrew&nbsp;verb&nbsp;<em>&#8216;sachah&#8217;&nbsp;<\/em>to&nbsp;worship,&nbsp;It&nbsp;is&nbsp;the Hitpael&nbsp;root formation&nbsp;givingit&nbsp;the&nbsp;meaning&nbsp;<em>&#8216;to bow&nbsp;down before&nbsp;God&nbsp;in worship&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/em>The&nbsp;Gesenius&#8217; Hebrew-Chaldee&nbsp;lexicon explains as&nbsp;follows:&nbsp;&#8216;in&nbsp;<em>worshipping a deity,&nbsp;<\/em>hence to&nbsp;honor God with prayers&#8217; with specific&nbsp;reference to&nbsp;Gen. 22&nbsp;: 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So here&nbsp;we&nbsp;see&nbsp;the typological foreshadowing&nbsp;seen&nbsp;to&nbsp;God the Father and&nbsp;God the Son who went out together to the altar of Calvary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Look&nbsp;at&nbsp;verse&nbsp;6&nbsp;:&nbsp;<em>As&nbsp;Isaac&nbsp;carried&nbsp;the&nbsp;wood.&nbsp;so&nbsp;Jesus&nbsp;carried&nbsp;the&nbsp;cross.&nbsp;Great&nbsp;parallel!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;7.&nbsp;Then Isaac spoke&nbsp;to&nbsp;his father Abraham,&nbsp;saying, My&nbsp;father! He&nbsp;said,&nbsp;Behold, here&nbsp;I&nbsp;am,&nbsp;my&nbsp;son.&nbsp;Hesaid,&nbsp;Behold,&nbsp;here&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;fire&nbsp;and&nbsp;the&nbsp;wood,&nbsp;but&nbsp;where&nbsp;is&nbsp;the&nbsp;lamb&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;burnt&nbsp;offering?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;8.&nbsp;Abraham&nbsp;said,&nbsp;God&nbsp;will&nbsp;provide&nbsp;Himself&nbsp;with&nbsp;the&nbsp;lamb&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;burnt&nbsp;offering,&nbsp;my&nbsp;son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So&nbsp;they&nbsp;both&nbsp;went&nbsp;together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 9.&nbsp;And&nbsp;they came to&nbsp;the&nbsp;place which God had named for&nbsp;him. Abraham&nbsp;built the altar&nbsp;<strong>there, arranged the&nbsp;wood on it, bound his son Isaac and laid him on&nbsp;the&nbsp;altar, on&nbsp;top of the&nbsp;wood.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;10.&nbsp;Then&nbsp;Abraham&nbsp;stretched&nbsp;out&nbsp;his&nbsp;hand&nbsp;and&nbsp;took&nbsp;the&nbsp;knife&nbsp;to&nbsp;slaughter&nbsp;his&nbsp;son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 11.&nbsp;But&nbsp;the Angel&nbsp;of the LORD&nbsp;called&nbsp;to&nbsp;him&nbsp;from heaven and said,&nbsp;Abraham, Abraham! He said, Behold, here I am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;12.&nbsp;Then&nbsp;He&nbsp;said,&nbsp;Do&nbsp;not&nbsp;put&nbsp;out&nbsp;your&nbsp;hand&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;boy&nbsp;or&nbsp;do&nbsp;anything&nbsp;to&nbsp;him,&nbsp;for&nbsp;now&nbsp;I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>know&nbsp;that&nbsp;you&nbsp;are&nbsp;God-fearing&nbsp;and&nbsp;have&nbsp;not&nbsp;withheld&nbsp;your&nbsp;son,&nbsp;your&nbsp;only&nbsp;son,&nbsp;from&nbsp;Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So in these verses a listing of actions. So Abraham is willing to &#8220;give back&#8221; his beloved son to God. To compare with Hanna, who was also barren just like&nbsp;Sarah, and gave her son&nbsp;Samuel back to&nbsp;God by letting him grow up in the temple. We may also give back to&nbsp;God our relationships received from God, as well as our talents!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To&nbsp;Isaac&#8217;s question, Abraham gives a&nbsp;special answer: God will provide&nbsp;Himself with&nbsp;the&nbsp;lamb&nbsp;for the burnt offering. Three approaches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God will seek a lamb for&nbsp;Himself &#8211; God will seek Himself&nbsp;as a lamb for&nbsp;burnt offering &#8211; God will provide&nbsp;a&nbsp;lamb&nbsp;namely&nbsp;Isaac.&nbsp;Eitherway,&nbsp;Isaac&nbsp;was&nbsp;confused, but&nbsp;accepts&nbsp;the vague&nbsp;explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Isaac is&nbsp;bound on the woodpile, the Hebrew verb for&nbsp;bind is used only here&nbsp;<em>&#8216;aqad.&nbsp;<\/em>Hence the Jewish name of this history&#8221; the &#8216;binding&#8217;&nbsp;<em>(Aqeda)&nbsp;<\/em>of Isaac. It&nbsp;is commemorated&nbsp;by&nbsp;the Jews annually on the New Year&#8217;s&nbsp;feast&nbsp;<em>(Rosh&nbsp;Hashannah).&nbsp;<\/em>The&nbsp;Jewish explanation suggests&nbsp;that&nbsp;Isaac may have&nbsp;been 37&nbsp;years&nbsp;old&nbsp;(in the&nbsp;year&nbsp;of Sara&#8217;s death &#8211;&nbsp;Gn 23:&nbsp;1).&nbsp;At that age,&nbsp;there is&nbsp;more emphasis on one&#8217;s own surrender than when Isaac had still been a small boy.&nbsp;It cannot be otherwise&nbsp;than&nbsp;that Isaac voluntarily bound himself and agreed to&nbsp;the&nbsp;divine&nbsp;demand. This says a lot&nbsp;about his faith. Own of both Abraham and Isaac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reading&nbsp;Hb&nbsp;11:&nbsp;17&nbsp;-19:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By&nbsp;faith&nbsp;Abraham, when&nbsp;put&nbsp;to&nbsp;the test&nbsp;by&nbsp;God,&nbsp;sacrificed Isaac. And&nbsp;he, who had&nbsp;received the promises, offered his only begotten. It had been said to him, That of Isaac&nbsp;shall be called thy offspring. He considered with himself that&nbsp;God was able to&nbsp;raise him even from the dead. And he got&nbsp;him back, as it&nbsp;were, from there also.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;commentary I read the following: Abraham did&nbsp;not&nbsp;think about God saying &#8220;it&nbsp;is not necessary,&#8221; but&nbsp;believed in a resurrection of his son. That could well be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Angel speaks to&nbsp;Abraham just at the right time. It&nbsp;is striking that the Angel says: Abraham, Abraham.&nbsp;So twice! This rarely happens in the Bible. When it&nbsp;happens it&nbsp;is always at a crucial moment! Jacob when he&nbsp;wants to&nbsp;go&nbsp;to&nbsp;Egypt to&nbsp;see Joseph; Moses at&nbsp;the&nbsp;burning&nbsp;bush, Samuel&nbsp;during&nbsp;his vocation, Martha when she is extremely preoccupied&nbsp;with serving, Simon when the Lord Jesus reveals to&nbsp;him that Satan has urgently demanded to&nbsp;be allowed to&nbsp;sift the apostles&nbsp;like wheat (Lk&nbsp;22:31)&nbsp;and Saulwhen the&nbsp;glorified&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;confronts&nbsp;him with the&nbsp;fact that he&nbsp;is persecuting&nbsp;Him.&nbsp;Then&nbsp;once more at the&nbsp;place of&nbsp;Jerusalem&nbsp;when theLord Jesus points out&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;city&nbsp;that&nbsp;He tried&nbsp;several&nbsp;times&nbsp;to&nbsp;gather&nbsp;the&nbsp;city&nbsp;together,&nbsp;but&nbsp;the&nbsp;city&nbsp;itself&nbsp;would not (Mt 23:37).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 13.&nbsp;<strong>Then&nbsp;Abraham lifted&nbsp;up&nbsp;his&nbsp;eyes&nbsp;and&nbsp;looked back,&nbsp;and&nbsp;behold, behind him&nbsp;was&nbsp;a ram with his horns entangled in the thicket. Abraham went there, took that ram and offered it as a burnt offering in the place of his son.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 14.&nbsp;<strong>And&nbsp;Abraham gave&nbsp;that&nbsp;place&nbsp;the&nbsp;name,&nbsp;The&nbsp;LORD&nbsp;will provide&nbsp;for&nbsp;it.&nbsp;Therefore it is said today, In&nbsp;the mountain of the LORD it shall be provided for.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regarding verse 1&nbsp;3: Abraham lifted up his&nbsp;eyes&#8230;&nbsp;read Jh&nbsp;8&nbsp;:56&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Abraham&nbsp;your father&nbsp;greatly rejoiced that he&nbsp;should see My&nbsp;day, and he saw it,&nbsp;and rejoiced.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the altar of his&nbsp;son,&nbsp;Abraham saw&nbsp;the&nbsp;day of the&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;Jesus. He&nbsp;saw in particular when he saw the&nbsp;ram, whose horns were tangled in the bush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judaism&nbsp;states that the people later used one horn of this ram when receiving&nbsp;the&nbsp;Torah at Mount Sinai and&nbsp;that the other horn will be&nbsp;used to&nbsp;announce the&nbsp;coming of the Messiah (Pirkei d&#8217;Rabbi Eliezer. Scherman,&nbsp;2009:405).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Angel of the Lord is&nbsp;a&nbsp;<em>Christophany.&nbsp;<\/em>A revelation of Christ Himself. For this Angel spoke from heaven!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;15.&nbsp;<strong>Then&nbsp;the&nbsp;Angel&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;LORD&nbsp;called&nbsp;to&nbsp;Abraham&nbsp;for&nbsp;the&nbsp;second&nbsp;time&nbsp;from&nbsp;heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 16.&nbsp;<strong>He said,&nbsp;I&nbsp;swear&nbsp;by&nbsp;Myself,&nbsp;saith&nbsp;the&nbsp;LORD:&nbsp;Because&nbsp;you&nbsp;have&nbsp;done&nbsp;this&nbsp;and&nbsp;have&nbsp;not withheld from me your son, your only one,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;17.&nbsp;I&nbsp;will surely bless you richly&nbsp;and make your descendants very&nbsp;numerous, like&nbsp;the&nbsp;stars in&nbsp;the&nbsp;sky and like&nbsp;the&nbsp;sand that&nbsp;is&nbsp;on&nbsp;the&nbsp;shore of&nbsp;the&nbsp;sea. Your progeny shall possess the&nbsp;gate&nbsp;of&nbsp;his&nbsp;enemies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;18.&nbsp;<strong>And in&nbsp;your offspring&nbsp;all the&nbsp;nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have&nbsp;been&nbsp;obedientto&nbsp;My&nbsp;voice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here the very&nbsp;familiar blessing to&nbsp;Abraham. God&#8217;s plan of salvation unfolds here&nbsp;more and more. By the&nbsp;way, only here is thecomparison&nbsp;made between&nbsp;Abraham&#8217;s&nbsp;posterity and the&nbsp;stars and the&nbsp;sand.&nbsp;In Genesis&nbsp;32:&nbsp;12&nbsp;there&nbsp;is a repetition&nbsp;of&nbsp;this:&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Yousaid, I&nbsp;will certainly&nbsp;do you&nbsp;good and&nbsp;I will make&nbsp;your descendants&nbsp;like the&nbsp;sand of&nbsp;the sea, which cannot be&nbsp;counted because of the multitude&#8221;!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Midrash&nbsp;Rabbah&nbsp;writes&nbsp;of&nbsp;this&nbsp;rich&nbsp;posterity&nbsp;&#8220;which&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;days&nbsp;of Messiah&nbsp;Israel&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;compared&nbsp;to&nbsp;the sand&nbsp;of the sea&#8221;(&nbsp;MidrashRabbah&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Genesis 2).&nbsp;The&nbsp;Talmud compares&nbsp;the dust&nbsp;to humiliation and&nbsp;the stars&nbsp;to the elevation&nbsp;of the&nbsp;people&nbsp;through&nbsp;theirobedience to faith:&nbsp;<em>&#8216;If&nbsp;they&nbsp;sink down, they&nbsp;sink to the&nbsp;dust&nbsp;of the&nbsp;earth;&nbsp;if, however, they&nbsp;rise&nbsp;up,&nbsp;they&nbsp;rise&nbsp;to the&nbsp;<\/em>stars'((BabylonianTalmud, tractate Megillah 16a).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&nbsp;is&nbsp;also&nbsp;a&nbsp;repetition&nbsp;of&nbsp;Genesis&nbsp;12&nbsp;:&nbsp;3.&nbsp;The&nbsp;Lord&nbsp;God&nbsp;is&nbsp;thus&nbsp;showing&nbsp;that&nbsp;He&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;faithful like Abraham.&nbsp;<em>(&gt;N.&nbsp;<\/em>Brueggemann, Genesis, 1982, 194).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;19.&nbsp;Then Abraham returned to&nbsp;his servants. They got up and went together to&nbsp;Berseba.&nbsp;And&nbsp;Abrahamcontinued&nbsp;to&nbsp;live&nbsp;in&nbsp;Berseba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Progeny&nbsp;of&nbsp;Nahor<br><\/strong>Verse 20&nbsp;And it came&nbsp;to&nbsp;pass after these&nbsp;things that Abraham was brought the message, Behold, Milka also has borne Nahor, your brother, sons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse 21&nbsp;Uz,&nbsp;his firstborn, Buz, his brother, and&nbsp;Kemuel, the father of Aram, Verse 22&nbsp;Chesed, Hazo, Pildas, Jidlaf, and Bethuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;23&nbsp;Bethuel&nbsp;begot&nbsp;Rebekah.&nbsp;These eight&nbsp;bore&nbsp;Milka&nbsp;to&nbsp;Nahor,&nbsp;Abraham&#8217;s&nbsp;brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Verse&nbsp;24&nbsp;Also&nbsp;his&nbsp;concubine,&nbsp;whose&nbsp;name&nbsp;was&nbsp;Reubah,&nbsp;bore&nbsp;sons:&nbsp;Tebah,&nbsp;Gaham,&nbsp;Tahas&nbsp;and&nbsp;Maacha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;name&nbsp;Chesed&nbsp;is&nbsp;probably&nbsp;related&nbsp;to&nbsp;the&nbsp;Chaldeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sacrifice of lssak in Gn22 occupies an important place within the Christian tradition as a&nbsp;foreshadowing&nbsp;of&nbsp;(pointing&nbsp;to)the&nbsp;sacrifice&nbsp;of&nbsp;Christ.&nbsp;Yet&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;surprising&nbsp;to&nbsp;note&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;New&nbsp;Testament makes no reference to&nbsp;this section of text.&nbsp;The only text that seems to&nbsp;refer to this passage is Rm 8&nbsp;:32&nbsp;&#8220;How will&nbsp;He, who did&nbsp;not spare even His own&nbsp;Son&nbsp;but&nbsp;gave&nbsp;Him up for&nbsp;us all, not also with Him give us all things?&#8221; At&nbsp;the&nbsp;time, the&nbsp;well-known&nbsp;philosopher&nbsp;Kiekegaard&nbsp;had a &#8230; <a title=\"Genesis\u00a022\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/biblefactory.org\/blog\/bible-studies\/genesis-22\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Genesis\u00a022\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-studies","category-genesis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Genesis\u00a022 - Bible Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/biblefactory.org\/blog\/bible-studies\/genesis-22\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Genesis\u00a022 - Bible Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The sacrifice of lssak in Gn22 occupies an important place within the Christian tradition as a&nbsp;foreshadowing&nbsp;of&nbsp;(pointing&nbsp;to)the&nbsp;sacrifice&nbsp;of&nbsp;Christ.&nbsp;Yet&nbsp;it&nbsp;is&nbsp;surprising&nbsp;to&nbsp;note&nbsp;that&nbsp;the&nbsp;New&nbsp;Testament makes no reference to&nbsp;this section of text.&nbsp;The only text that seems to&nbsp;refer to this passage is Rm 8&nbsp;:32&nbsp;&#8220;How will&nbsp;He, who did&nbsp;not spare even His own&nbsp;Son&nbsp;but&nbsp;gave&nbsp;Him up for&nbsp;us all, not also with Him give us all things?&#8221; At&nbsp;the&nbsp;time, the&nbsp;well-known&nbsp;philosopher&nbsp;Kiekegaard&nbsp;had a ... 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