ISAAC

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• Genesis 17:15

  God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.

• Genesis 17:16

  I will bless her, and moreover I will give you a son by her. Yes, I will bless her, and she will be a mother of nations. Kings of peoples will come from her.”

• Genesis 17:17

  Then Abraham fell on his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him who is one hundred years old? Will Sarah, who is ninety years old, give birth?”

• Genesis 17:18

  Abraham said to God, “Oh that Ishmael might live before you!”

• Genesis 17:19

  God said, “No, but Sarah, your wife, will bear you a son. You shall call his name Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant for his offspring after him.

• Genesis 17:20

  As for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly. He will become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

• Genesis 17:21

  But my covenant I establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time next year.”

• Genesis 18:1

  Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

• Genesis 18:2

  He lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw that three men stood opposite him. When he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself to the earth,

• Genesis 18:3

  and said, “My lord, if now I have found favor in your sight, please don’t go away from your servant.

• Genesis 18:4

  Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

• Genesis 18:5

  I will get a morsel of bread so you can refresh your heart. After that you may go your way, now that you have come to your servant.” They said, “Very well, do as you have said.”

• Genesis 18:6

  Abraham hurried into the tent to Sarah, and said, “Quickly prepare three seahs of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes.”

• Genesis 18:7

  Abraham ran to the herd, and fetched a tender and good calf, and gave it to the servant. He hurried to dress it.

• Genesis 18:8

  He took butter, milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them. He stood by them under the tree, and they ate.

• Genesis 18:9

  They asked him, “Where is Sarah, your wife?” He said, “See, in the tent.”

• Genesis 18:10

  He said, “I will certainly return to you at about this time next year; and behold, Sarah your wife will have a son.” Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

• Genesis 18:11

  Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

• Genesis 18:12

  Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”

• Genesis 18:13

  Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?’

• Genesis 18:14

  Is anything too hard for Yahweh? At the set time I will return to you, when the season comes round, and Sarah will have a son.”

• Genesis 18:15

  Then Sarah denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh,” for she was afraid. He said, “No, but you did laugh.”

• Genesis 21:1

  Yahweh visited Sarah as he had said, and Yahweh did to Sarah as he had spoken.

• Genesis 21:2

  Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

• Genesis 21:3

  Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

• Genesis 21:4

  Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

• Genesis 21:5

  Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

• Genesis 21:6

  Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

• Genesis 21:7

  She said, “Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

• Genesis 21:8

  The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

• Genesis 21:12

  God said to Abraham, “Don’t let it be grievous in your sight because of the boy, and because of your servant. In all that Sarah says to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.

• Genesis 22:1

  After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Now take your son, your only son, whom you love, even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

• Genesis 22:3

  Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

• Genesis 22:4

  On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

• Genesis 22:5

  Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.”

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.

• Genesis 22:7

  Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

• Genesis 22:8

  Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

• Genesis 22:9

  They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

• Genesis 22:10

  Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

• Genesis 22:11

  Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 22:12

  He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

• Genesis 22:13

  Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

• Genesis 22:14

  Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

• Genesis 22:15

  Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

• Genesis 22:16

  and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

• Genesis 22:17

  that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.

• Genesis 22:18

  All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.”

• Genesis 22:19

  So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

• Genesis 24:62

  Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

• Genesis 24:63

  Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the evening. He lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, there were camels coming.

• Genesis 25:9

  Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

• Genesis 25:11

  After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

• Genesis 25:19

  This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

• Genesis 25:20

  Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

• Genesis 25:21

  Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

• Genesis 25:22

  The children struggled together within her. She said, “If it is so, why do I live?” She went to inquire of Yahweh.

• Genesis 25:23

  Yahweh said to her, “Two nations are in your womb. Two peoples will be separated from your body. The one people will be stronger than the other people. The elder will serve the younger.”

• Genesis 25:24

  When her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.

• Genesis 25:25

  The first came out red all over, like a hairy garment. They named him Esau.

• Genesis 25:26

  After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

• Genesis 26:2

  Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

• Genesis 26:3

  Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

• Genesis 26:4

  I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring will all the nations of the earth be blessed,

• Genesis 26:5

  because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

• Genesis 26:7

  The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

• Genesis 26:8

  When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

• Genesis 26:9

  Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

• Genesis 26:10

  Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

• Genesis 26:11

  Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

• Genesis 26:12

  Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

• Genesis 26:13

  The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

• Genesis 26:14

  He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

• Genesis 26:15

  Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

• Genesis 26:16

  Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

• Genesis 26:17

  Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

• Genesis 26:18

  Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

• Genesis 26:19

  Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

• Genesis 26:20

  The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

• Genesis 26:21

  They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

• Genesis 26:22

  He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 26:23

  He went up from there to Beersheba.

• Genesis 26:24

  Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”

• Genesis 26:25

  He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.

• Genesis 26:26

  Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

• Genesis 26:27

  Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”

• Genesis 26:28

  They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

• Genesis 26:29

  that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

• Genesis 26:30

  He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

• Genesis 26:31

  They rose up some time in the morning, and swore to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

• Genesis 26:32

  The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

• Genesis 26:33

  He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

• Genesis 27:18

  He came to his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am. Who are you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:19

  Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:20

  Isaac said to his son, “How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?” He said, “Because Yahweh your God gave me success.”

• Genesis 27:21

  Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not.”

• Genesis 27:22

  Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, “The voice is Jacob’s voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”

• Genesis 27:23

  He didn’t recognize him, because his hands were hairy, like his brother, Esau’s hands. So he blessed him.

• Genesis 27:24

  He said, “Are you really my son Esau?” He said, “I am.”

• Genesis 27:25

  He said, “Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son’s venison, that my soul may bless you.” He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.

• Genesis 27:26

  His father Isaac said to him, “Come near now, and kiss me, my son.”

• Genesis 27:27

  He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, “Behold, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.

• Genesis 27:28

  God give you of the dew of the sky, of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and new wine.

• Genesis 27:29

  Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers. Let your mother’s sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you. Blessed be everyone who blesses you.”

• Genesis 27:30

  As soon as Isaac had finished blessing Jacob, and Jacob had just gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

• Genesis 27:31

  He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, “Let my father arise, and eat of his son’s venison, that your soul may bless me.”

• Genesis 27:32

  Isaac his father said to him, “Who are you?” He said, “I am your son, your firstborn, Esau.”

• Genesis 27:33

  Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”

• Genesis 27:34

  When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, “Bless me, even me also, my father.”

• Genesis 27:35

  He said, “Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing.”

• Genesis 27:36

  He said, “Isn’t he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing.” He said, “Haven’t you reserved a blessing for me?”

• Genesis 27:37

  Isaac answered Esau, “Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants. I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What then will I do for you, my son?”

• Genesis 27:38

  Esau said to his father, “Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father.” Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.

• Genesis 27:39

  Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.

• Genesis 27:40

  By your sword will you live, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you shall shake his yoke from off your neck.”

• Genesis 35:27

  Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

• Genesis 35:28

  The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.

• Genesis 35:29

  Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

• Genesis 49:31

  There they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife. There they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there I buried Leah:

• Exodus 32:13

  Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”

• Joshua 24:3

  I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.

• Joshua 24:4

  I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

• 1 Chronicles 1:28

  The sons of Abraham: Isaac and Ishmael.

• 1 Chronicles 1:34

  Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 16:15

  Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

• 1 Chronicles 16:16

  the covenant which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

• 1 Chronicles 16:17

  He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

• 1 Chronicles 16:18

  saying, “I will give you the land of Canaan, The lot of your inheritance,”

• 1 Chronicles 16:19

  when you were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners were in it.

• Amos 7:9

  The high places of Isaac will be desolate, the sanctuaries of Israel will be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”

• Matthew 1:2

  Abraham became the father of Isaac. Isaac became the father of Jacob. Jacob became the father of Judah and his brothers.

• Matthew 8:11

  I tell you that many will come from the east and the west, and will sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Kingdom of Heaven,

• Luke 13:28

  There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets, in God’s Kingdom, and yourselves being thrown outside.

• Romans 9:7

  Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”

• Galatians 4:28

  Now we, brothers, as Isaac was, are children of promise.

• Hebrews 11:11

  By faith, even Sarah herself received power to conceive, and she bore a child when she was past age, since she counted him faithful who had promised.

• Hebrews 11:17

  By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

• Hebrews 11:20

  By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come.

• James 2:21

  Wasn’t Abraham our father justified by works, in that he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?

• James 25:20