Genesis 22:14

So Abraham took the ram and offered him up as a burnt-offering instead of his son.

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In The King James Version

And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

In Context

13Then Abraham looked up, and he saw behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.

15He named the place “The Lord will provide” – and even today people say, “The Lord will provide on his mountain.”

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Cross References

Genesis 22:8Abraham answered, “My son, God will himself provide a lamb for a burnt-offering.” So the two went on together.

Genesis 28:19He named that place Bethel. (The earlier name of the town was Luz.)

Psalms 22:4In you our ancestors trusted, they trusted and you delivered them.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 22:12-15

Isaac Rescued. ( b. c. 1872.) 11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. 12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the… Read the whole commentary →

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