Then God said, ‘Take your son, your only son, whom you love — Isaac — and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you’” (Genesis 22: ...

God tells Abraham: “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.” ...

She now demands of Abraham that he, “Cast out that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” (21:10).

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

Isaac’s almost-sacrifice on the hill of Moriah prefigures Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross. What is prefigured in Isaac happens in Jesus. If you reject Abraham’s obedience, you question whether ...

Abraham’s near sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah prefigures the Father’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, on Mount Calvary. What Isaac foretold is realized in full in Christ. Isaac is the bridge ...

In this perplexing story, God says to Abraham, “Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights ...

On the walk toward Mount Moriah, Abraham’s intention was to sacrifice to, but he ended up sacrificing for. Isaac has only known his parents’ marriage as a double triangle. A child will never ...

God tested Abraham. The Binding of Isaac is a mystery that will never be completely understood. Commentators, philosophers, poets, and artists have tried to uncover its secrets — yet there ...

When Abraham and Isaac leave home en route to Mt. Moriah, as we read last week in the Torah, they departed from Beersheba, for this is where Abraham and his two accompanying ‘’young men ...

Years back, a Hebrew Christian approached me, arguing that his belief in Jesus grew from the story of the Binding of Isaac, called the Akeidah in Hebrew. Jesus, he suggested, was able to do what Is… ...