Genesis 22

Question 1

Genesis 22:1

Answer 1

Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

Question 2

Genesis 22:2

Answer 2

Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

Question 3

Genesis 22:3

Answer 3

Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.

Question 4

Genesis 22:4

Answer 4

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Question 5

Genesis 22:5

Answer 5

He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

Question 6

Genesis 22:6

Answer 6

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,

Question 7

Genesis 22:7

Answer 7

Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

Question 8

Genesis 22:8

Answer 8

Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

Question 9

Genesis 22:9

Answer 9

When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Question 10

Genesis 22:10

Answer 10

Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

Question 11

Genesis 22:11

Answer 11

But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

Question 12

Genesis 22:12

Answer 12

“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

Question 13

Genesis 22:13

Answer 13

Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Question 14

Genesis 22:14

Answer 14

So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

Question 15

Genesis 22:15

Answer 15

The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time

Question 16

Genesis 22:16

Answer 16

and said, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Question 17

Genesis 22:17

Answer 17

I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

Question 18

Genesis 22:18

Answer 18

and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”

Question 19

Genesis 22:19

Answer 19

Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

Question 20

Genesis 22:20

Answer 20

Some time later Abraham was told, “Milcah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

Question 21

Genesis 22:21

Answer 21

Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel ,

Question 22

Genesis 22:22

Answer 22

Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.”

Question 23

Genesis 22:23

Answer 23

Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Question 24

Genesis 22:24

Answer 24

His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.