Genesis 22:1−19 Fear of God trumps every other allegiance and manifests in self-sacrificial obedience. The account of Genesis 22 begins with a time-stamp: “Now it came aboutafter these things, that God tested Abraham” (22:1). What “things”? Throughout the saga of Abraham, he is...
Abraham is living near a well at Beer-sheba on the edge of the Negev desert at the southern extremity of Canaan (20:33-34; 22:19). Here in Beer-sheba he had "called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God" (21:33) and here in Beer-sheba God speaks to him a fearful word....
22:14Yahweh-yireh: a Hebrew expression meaning “the Lord will see/provide.” See note onvv. 1–19. 22:15–19The seventh and climactic statement of the blessings to Abraham. Unlike the other statements, which were purely promissory, this one is presented as a reward for...
I. Lawlor, “The Test of Abraham,” GTJ 1 (1980): 19-35. Genesis 22:1 tn Heb“he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Genesis 22:2 tn Heb“he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity. Genesis 22:2 sn Take ...
The first is supported by Isaiah 2:3, where the verb is rendered will teach; but the second agrees best with Genesis 22:8; Genesis 22:14. If this be the meaning, the name would be derived from this event, and would signify the place where "Jehovah will Himself provide the sacrifice....
The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ.Acts 3:25And you are sons of the prophets and of the covenant God made with your fathers when He said to Abraham, ‘Through your offspring all the families of the ...
Genesis 4:22 Meaning and Commentary Genesis 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain Thought by many to be the same with Vulcan, his name and business agreeing; for the names are near in sound, Tubalcain may easily pass into Vulcan; and who, with the Heathens, was the god of the sm...
iv. 1*?, 2-16a, 17a, 17b?, 18-21. iv. 1*?, 17b?, 25, 26. iv. 1*, 16aRj. v. 1-3*, 4-19, 20-24*, 25-27, 28 without , 30-32. In v. 28 . v. 1-3*, 20-24*. vi. 9-22. vi. 1-3a, 4a*. vi. 5-8. vi. 3b, in 4a, 4b gloss, 7* (17*?), 19f....
Joseph could have buried his gift in the ground and kept the meaning of the dreams to himself. He could have thought, “I’m not going to going to help these two numbskulls. Nobody appreciates me around here, anyway. Potiphar wouldn’t listen to me. His wife set me up. These Egyptian...
" a word that has a breadth of meaning nearly as great as our English word "love."[10] The word describes the affection between Abraham and Isaac (22:2). Later it is used between Jacob and his son Joseph (37:3). Here it is the love of a man for a woman, also demonstrated by...