Gênesis 22

Gênesis 22

Wiersbe adds some practical thoughts on the great Name Jehovah jireh… Two statements reveal the emphasis of this passage: “God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering” (Genesis 22:8); and “Jehovah-jireh” (Genesis 22:14), which means, “The Lord will see to it,” that is, “The Lord will provide.” As he climbed Mount Moriah with his son, Abraham was confident that God would meet every need. On what could Abraham depend? He certainly could not depend on his feelings, for there must have been terrible pain within as he contemplated slaying his son on the altar. He loved his only son, but he also loved his God and wanted to obey Him. Nor could Abraham depend on other people. Sarah was at home, and the two servants who accompanied him were back at the camp. We thank God for friends and family members who can help us carry our burdens, but there are some trials in life that we must face alone. It is only then that we can see what our Father really can do for us! Abraham could depend on the promise and provision of the Lord. He had already experienced the resurrection power of God in his own body (Ro 4:19; 20; 21-see notes Ro 4:19; 20; 21), so he knew that God could raise Isaac from the dead if that was His plan. Apparently no resurrections had taken place before that time, so Abraham was exercising great faith in God. According to Ephesians 1:19; 20 (see notes) and Ephesians 3:20; 21(see notes), believers today have Christ’s resurrection power available in their own bodies as they yield to the Spirit of God. We can know “the power of His resurrection” (Philippians 3:10+) as we face the daily demands and trials of life. When the situation appears to be hopeless, ask yourself, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Genesis 18:14) and remind yourself, “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13NKJV+). God did provide the sacrifice that was needed, and a ram took Isaac’s place on the altar (Genesis 22:13). Abraham discovered a new name for God—“Jehovah-jireh”—which can be translated “The Lord will see to it” or “The Lord will be seen.” The statement “In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen” helps us understand some truths about the provision of the Lord. Where does the Lord provide our needs? In the place of His assignment. Abraham was at the right place, so God could meet his needs. We have no right to expect the provision of God if we are not in the will of God. When does God meet our needs? Just when we have the need and not a minute before. When you bring your requests to the throne of grace, God answers with mercy and grace “in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16+). Sometimes it looks like God waits until the last minute to send help, but that is only from our human point of view. God is never late. How does God provide for us? In ways that are usually quite natural. God did not send an angel with a sacrifice; He simply allowed a ram to get caught in a bush at a time when Abraham needed it and in a place where Abraham could get his hands on it. All Abraham needed was one animal, so God did not send a whole flock of sheep. To whom does God give His provision? To those who trust Him and obey His instructions. When we are doing the will of God, we have the right to expect the provision of God. A deacon in the first church I pastored used to remind us, “When God’s work is done in God’s way, it will not lack God’s support.” God is not obligated to bless my ideas or projects, but He is obligated to support His work if it is done in His way. Why does God provide our every need? For the great glory of His name! “Hallowed be Thy name” is the first petition in the Lord’s Prayer (Matt 6:9, 10, 11, 12, 13notes), and it governs all the other requests. God was glorified on Mount Moriah because Abraham and Isaac did the will of the Lord and glorified Jesus Christ. We must pause to consider this important truth." (Bible Exposition Commentary - Old Testament ) (Bolding added) Allen Ross - Romans 8:32 “The Lord will provide” In the midst of this discussion of God’s plan for our lives Paul declares, “He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all--how shall He not also , along with Him, freely give us all things?” Biblical students have for some time recognized that in this expression Paul is alluding to an Old Testament incident that foreshadowed the crucifixion. That incident was the sacrifice of Isaac on Mount Moriah in Genesis 22. Let me remind you of the basic features of that passage (although you might want to read my exposition of the chapter in my book on Genesis, Creation and Blessing). God tested Abraham, who now had his beloved son, his only son, as the text says, and commanded him to go to the land of Moriah and sacrifice him there on an altar to God. It was a severe test to see if Abraham would obey--would he still obey when he had the son and heir that he wanted? So Abraham took Isaac, probably a young man now, and they traveled to the place. They left the servants and went up the mountain. Isaac asked where the sacrifice was; and Abraham answered, The LORD will provide a sacrifice for Himself. So they went on to the place. There Abraham bound the lad and put him on the altar, and drew the knife to kill him--when the LORD called from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham,” an urgent interruption. God told Abraham not to harm the lad, for now the LORD knew that Abraham feared God and did not withhold his son, his only son, from God. Instead, a ram caught in the thicket was sacrificed to the LORD. And Abraham called the place Yahweh Yireh (KJV: Jehovah Jireh), “the LORD will provide.” The text concludes the account with a little proverb: “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.” The parallels are striking: a father sacrifices his only son, his beloved son, on Mount Moriah, which the Chronicler (3:1) identified as the later Temple Mount in Jerusalem. And, the provision of a substitute animal was interpreted as the LORD’s provision of a sacrifice. The place was named to commemorate that. And the proverb turned the passaged into a preview of the greater provision that would be made on that mount. Because Abraham did not withhold his son, but was willing to offer him up to God, the LORD provided the substitute sacrifice. Paul sees the parallel that the Father in heaven did not withhold His Son, His only and beloved Son, but offered Him up for us all as a substitute. If God the Father was willing to give His Son for us, then He is certainly willing to give us all things--because nothing else would be so great a gift. By providing His Son for our salvation, God the Father has shown how much He desires to provide for us, how far He is willing to go to bring us to glory. And as these chapters in Romans unfold, we become more and more aware of the gracious gifts that God has given to us and will continue to give to us in Christ Jesus and through His Holy Spirit. But most importantly, by providing the sacrifice for our sins, God has settled the matter of our destiny once and for all. So Paul then can reason as a result of this, “Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen?” Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, and all the gifts of glory that such love brings us Below is an excerpt from C H Spurgeon's sermon Jehovah Jireh… I believe that the truth contained in the expression “Jehovah-jireh” was ruling Abraham’s thought long before he uttered it and appointed it to be the memorial name of the place where the Lord had provided a substitute for Isaac. It was this thought, I think, which enabled him to act as promptly as he did under the trying circumstances. His reason whispered within him, If you slay your son, how can God keep his promise to you that your seed shall be as many as the stars of heaven? He answered that suggestion by saying to himself, Jehovah will see to it! As he went upon that painful journey, with his dearly beloved son at his side, the suggestion may have come to him, How will you meet Sarah when you return home, having imbrued your hands in the blood of her son? How will you meet your neighbors when they hear that Abraham, who professed to be such a holy man, has killed his son? That answer still sustained his heart — Jehovah will see to it! Jehovah will see to it! He will not fail in his word. Perhaps he will raise my son from the dead; but in some way or other he will justify my obedience to him, and vindicate his own command. Jehovah will see to it. This was a quietus to every mistrustful thought. I pray that we may drink into this truth, and be refreshed by it. If we follow the Lord’s bidding, He will see to it that we shall not be ashamed or confounded. If we come into great need by following His command, He will see to it that the loss shall he recompensed. If our difficulties multiply and increase so that our way seems completely blocked up, Jehovah will see to it that the road shall be cleared. The Lord will see us through in the way of holiness if we are only willing to be thorough in it, and dare to follow wheresoever He leads the way. We need not wonder that Abraham should utter this truth, and attach it to the spot, which was to be forever famous: for his whole heart was saturated with it, and had been sustained by it. Wisely he makes an altar and a mountain to be memorials of the truth which had so greatly helped him. His trials had taught him more of God, — had, in fact, given him a new name for his God; and this he would not have forgotten, but he would keep it before the minds of the generations following by naming the place Jehovah-Jireh. Jehovah-Jireh - Robert Neighbour "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" (Gen. 22:14). Jehovah-jireh signifies, The Lord will provide. The word is often used as a promise for the supply of our daily food, and God does promise us all our needs according to His riches in Glory, by Christ Jesus" (Phil. 4:19). The word, Jehovah-jireh, however, has particular reference to God's provision of a sacrifice. Jesus Christ is Himself this provision. Whenever a poor lost sinner is overwhelmed with his sins, he can go and stand at the foot of the Cross, and, as he sees there the Crucified dying in his stead he can say, Jehovah-jireh, the Lord will provide. Nor need we hesitate to know that since He Who provided us so great a salvation at so great a cost will surely provide us all things else that we need. An hour can never be so dark but what God will give the light. A task will never be so heavy but that God will lift the load. If God "spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" (Rom. 8:32). We need not fear. The God who provided the Cross will also provide many riches of grace in the ages to come. God did the hardest thing for us that could be done when He gave us Christ, His only begotten Son to die upon the hill of Calvary. Such a God, with such a love, and with such wealth of glory will surely shower upon us, age after age, the unspeakable provisions of His grace. Thus let Jehovah-jireh be our most precious heritage. God will provide. (1) He did provide for our redemption in the gift of Christ upon the Cross. (2) He does now provide for our every need both temporal and spiritual. (3) He will provide for us all things richly to enjoy throughout all eternity. Jehovah-Jireh - Robert Neighbour "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" (Gen. 22:14). God had commanded Abraham to take Isaac, his only son, unto the land of Moriah and to offer him there as a burnt-offering unto God. Abraham had risen up early in the morning and had gone a three-day journey. Then, on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off. He took the wood of the burnt-offering and laid it upon Isaac, his son; he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they both went on together. As Abraham and Isaac journeyed, Isaac said, "Behold the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?" Abraham said, "My son, God will provide Himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went, both of them together." Finally Abraham prepared the altar, laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him upon the wood. "And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son." Quickly out of Heaven the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham saying, "Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him." Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. As Abraham took the ram and offered him as a burnt offering in the stead of his son, he looked down the centuries and saw Christ crucified, and he was glad. So Abraham called the name of the place Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will provide. 1. First of all in Christ, on the Cross, God has provided a Saviour, in the sinner's stead. This is the chief provision of the grace of God. Illustration: A story has its setting on Lake Erie. The ship is afire. John Maynard, the pilot is at the wheel. The passengers and the crew have thronged the prow of the ship. The captain knows their only hope lies in running the ship into the bank, before the flames reach the front of the boat. Through the smoke, and above the roar of the flames the captain cried, "John Maynard," and the answer came back, "Aye, Aye, captain." Then the captain cried again: "John, can you hold the boat steady for one more minute?" John Maynard, with one hand already burned to a crisp, grasped the wheel, with his other hand, and cries "Aye, aye, captain I will hold her." And so, as the ship reached the bank, and passengers and crew rushed to the shore for safety, John Maynard fell back in the flames. He had died that they might live. And, Jesus Christ died, the just for the unjust that He might bring us to God. 2. God also provided for every need of life. He gives us an abundance of spiritual blessings. He also supplies abundantly, each physical blessing. He Who feeds the sparrow and clothes the flower of the field, will surely provide for His own. His name is Jehovah-Jireh, "the Lord will provide." GE 22:14 ABRAHAM CALLED THE NAME OF THAT PLACE JEHOVAH-JIREH The Lord will provide I. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE FOR THE BODY. Temporal blessings, no less than spiritual, come to us through the medium of the covenant of grace. 1. The Lord will provide food for the body. He will bring round the seasons without fail, and make corn to grow for the service of man. 2. The Lord will provide raiment for His people. For forty years in the wilderness, amid the wear and tear of journey and of battle, the raiment of the Israelites waxed not old because Jehovah provided for them; and doth He not still remember His own? 3. The Lord will provide for His people protection. Many times are they delivered in a most wonderful way, and to the astonishment of the world. II. THE LORD WILL PROVIDE FOR THE SOUL. 1. Jehovah has provided a Lamb; in the gift of His Son we have the guarantee for the supply of every needed blessing. 2. The Lord will provide for you His Holy Spirit. The gift of the Spirit comes to us through the atonement of Christ, and the sufficiency of the Sacrifice entailed and implied the promise of the Spirit, so that He who hath provided the Lamb is confidently to be trusted for this also. 3. The Lord will provide for the soul an eternal home, as is clear from that word, “I go to prepare a place for you.” When the toils of life’s pilgrimage are over there remaineth a rest for the people of God. (J. Thain Davidson, D. D.) Jehovah-Jireh Related Music Youtube - Jehovah Jireh The Lord Will Provide Olney Hymns, William Cowper The saints should never be dismay’d, Nor sink in hopeless fear; For when they least expect His aid, The Saviour will appear. This Abraham found: he raised the knife; God saw, and said, “Forbear! Yon ram shall yield his meaner life; Behold the victim there.” Once David seem’d Saul’s certain prey; But hark! the foe’s at hand; Saul turns his arms another way, To save the invaded land. When Jonah sunk beneath the wave, He thought to rise no more; But God prepared a fish to save, And bear him to the shore. Blest proofs of power and grace divine, That meet us in His Word! May every deep-felt care of mine Be trusted with the Lord. Wait for His seasonable aid, And though it tarry, wait; The promise may be long delay’d, But cannot come too late. The Lord Will Provide In some way or other the Lord will provide; It may not be my way, It may not be thy way; And yet, in His own way, “The Lord will provide.” Refrain Then, we’ll trust in the Lord, And He will provide; Yes, we’ll trust in the Lord, And He will provide. At some time or other the Lord will provide; It may not be my time, It may not be thy time; And yet, in His own time, “The Lord will provide.” Despond then no longer; the Lord will provide; And this be the token— No word He hath spoken Was ever yet broken: “The Lord will provide.” March on then right boldly; the sea shall divide, The pathway made glorious, With shoutings victorious We’ll join in the chorus, “The Lord will provide.” Jehovah Jireh My feeble hope in miracles had waned, My faith that He would soon provide was strained, Then, prompted by His Spirit, my heart cried, Jehovah Jireh! My Savior will provide. “My needs were great but greater than my need Was He—Jehovah Jireh, so quick to heed And help, to hold, to hide me from the storm And shelter through the darkest night till morn. --Charles U. Wagner Genesis 22:15 Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven, Genesis 22 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven - See Angel of the LORD Oswald Chambers - The Eternal Goal By Myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for because thou hast done this thing,…that in blessing I will bless thee.… — Genesis 22:15-19 Abraham has reached the place where he is in touch with the very nature of God, he understands now the Reality of God. “My goal is God Himself… At any cost, dear Lord, by any road.” “At any cost, by any road” means nothing self-chosen in the way God brings us to the goal. There is no possibility of questioning when God speaks if He speaks to His own nature in me; prompt obedience is the only result. When Jesus says — “Come,” I simply come; when He says — “Let go,” I let go; when He says — “Trust in God in this matter,” I do trust. The whole working out is the evidence that the nature of God is in me. God’s revelation of Himself to me is determined by my character, not by God’s character. “Tis because I am mean, Thy ways so oft look mean to me.” By the discipline of obedience I get to the place where Abraham was and I see Who God is. I never have a real God until I have come face to face with Him in Jesus Christ, then I know that “in all the world, my God, there is none but Thee, there is none but Thee.” The promises of God are of no value to us until by obedience we understand the nature of God. We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us; then all of a sudden we see what God means, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His nature is opened up. “All the promises of God in Him are yea, and in Him Amen.” The “yea” must be born of obedience; when by the obedience of our lives we say “Amen” to a promise, then that promise is ours. COMMENT - The more we obey, the more God reveals. Today we learn that obedience includes not telling God how He should bring us into His oneness, which is the “eternal goal.” Are you tempted to choose how He does this? God’s road is slow—not because of Him but because of us. Realizing how slow we are is our first step in the right direction. We will be much quicker when it’s not us listening to God’s voice, but His nature in us! Think back on the last thing God revealed to you. Was it because you obeyed? Even seemingly small acts of obedience can root out the self-love in us and open the doors for more of God’s revelation! (From A Daily Companion to My Utmost for His Highest) Oswald Chambers - The Eternal Goal Genesis 22:15-19 My goal is God Himself, not joy, nor peace. Nor even blessing, but Himself, my God; ‘Tis His to lead me there, not mine, but His— “At any cost, dear Lord, by any road!” One thing I know, I cannot say Him nay; One thing I do, I press towards my Lord; My God my glory here, from day to day, And in the glory there my Great Reward. F. Brook In blessing I will bless thee . . . because thou hast obeyed My voice. Genesis 22:17-18 The spirit of obedience gives more joy to God than anything else on earth. Obedience is impossible to us naturally, even when we do obey, we do it with a pout in our moral underlip, and with the determination to scale up high enough and then “boss my boss.” In the spiritual domain there is no pout to be removed because the nature of God has come into me. The nature of God is exhibited in the life of Our Lord, and the great characteristic of His life is obedience. When the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost (Romans 5:5), I am possessed by the nature of God, and I know by my obedience that I love Him. The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies, but its obedience. “To obey is better than sacrifice.” 1. The Supreme Call of God (Genesis 22:15) When God first called to Abraham there was still a dim gulf between them, God had to call and Abraham to answer (v. 1). Now that gulf is bridged. “The angel of the Lord called a second time out of heaven, . . .” i.e., an inward state of soul, and Abraham is so near to God that he does not need to reply; he is in the place of unimpeded listening. Is there any impediment between my ears and God’s voice? The call of God is a call in accordance with the nature of God, not in accordance with my idea of God. At first, Abraham did not interpret the call along the line of the nature of God because he did not know it; he interpreted it along the line of the Chaldaic tradition and took it to mean he was to kill his son. The supreme crisis in Abraham’s faith has now been reached, all his imperfect conceptions of God have been left behind and he has come now to understand God. Always beware of self-assertiveness, it bruises our relationship to God, and distorts the manifestation of His nature in us. Abraham was neither an amateur providence nor a moral policeman, he simply believed God. 2. The Supreme Reality of God (Genesis 22:16) Abraham has come to the place where he is in touch with the very nature of God, he understands the reality of God, and God, as it were, unveils Himself to him in a burst of enthusiasm. There is no possibility of questioning on my part when God speaks, if He is speaking to His own nature in me; prompt obedience is the only result. When Jesus says “Come unto Me,” I simply come; when He says “Trust in God in this matter,” I do not try to trust, I do trust. An alteration has taken place in my disposition which is an evidence that the nature of God is at work in me. 3. The Supreme Character of God (Genesis 22:17-18) The promise of God stands in relation to Abraham’s tried and willing obedience. The revelation of God to me is determined by my character, not by God’s (Psalms 25-26). If I am mean, that is how God will appear to me. Tis because I am mean, Thy ways so oft Look mean to me. By the discipline of obedience, I come to the place Abraham reached and see God as He is. The promises of God are of no use to me until by obedience I understand the nature of God. We read some things in the Bible three hundred and sixty-five times and they mean nothing to us, then all of a sudden we see what they mean, because in some particular we have obeyed God, and instantly His character is revealed. “For how many soever be the promises of God, in Him is the yea” (rv). The “yea” must be born of obedience; when by the obedience of our life, we say “Amen,” “So let it be,” to a promise, then that promise is made ours. 4. The Supreme Reward (Genesis 22:19) The more we have to sacrifice for God, the more glorious is the reward presently. We have no right to choose our sacrifice, God will let us see where the sacrifice is to come, and it will always be on the line of what God has given us, our “Isaac,” and yet His call is to sacrifice it. God is always at work on the principle of lifting up the natural and making it and the spiritual one, and very few of us will go through with it. We will cling to the natural when God wants to put a sword through it. If you go through the transfiguration of the natural, you will receive it back on a new plane altogether. God wants to make eternally our own what we only possessed intermittently. In the beginning we do not train for God, we train for work, for our own aims, but as we go on with God we lose all our own aims and are trained into God’s purpose. Unless practical work is appointed by God, it will prove a curse (cf. John 17:13). “At any cost, by any road,” means nothing self-chosen. The Bible does not say that God blessed Abraham and took him to heaven; but that He blessed him and kept him on earth. The maturity of character before God is the personal channel through which He can bless others. If it takes all our lifetime before God can put us right, then others are going to be impoverished. We need to hurry and climb our Mount Moriah, come to the place where God can put an end to the dim gulf between Him and ourselves, then He will be able to bless us as He did Abraham. No language can express the ineffable blessedness of the supreme reward that awaits the soul that has taken its supreme climb, proved its supreme love, and entered on its supreme reward. What an imperturbable certainty there is about the man who is in contact with the real God! Thank God, the life of the Father of the Faithful† is but a specimen of the life of every humble believer who obediently follows the discipline of the life of faith. What a depth of transparent rightness there must be about the man who walks before God, and the meaning of the Atonement is to place us there in perfect adjustment to God. “Walk before Me, and be thou perfect,” not faultless, but blameless, undeserving of censure in the eyes of God. Genesis 22:16 By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, Ge 12:2 Ps 105:9 Isa 45:23 Jer 49:13 51:14 Am 6:8 Lu 1:73 Ro 4:13,14 Heb 6:13,14 Genesis 22 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD - Note the pronoun Myself links to the nearest antecedent, the Angel of the LORD calling from Heaven. There is no doubt that this is a "Theophany" and most likely a Christophany. This is the first and only divine oath in the patriarchal stories, though it is frequently harked back to (Ge 24:7; Ge 26:3; Ge 50:24; Ex 13:5; often in Deuteronomy). Note the preceding “by myself,” which gives the oath a special solemnity and weight (Jer 22:5; 49:13; Amos 4:2; 6:8; Heb 6:13-18). Declares the LORD: “Declares the Lord”. This phrase occurs 364 times in the OT, mostly in the prophets but only in one other place in the Pentateuch (Nu 14:28). This “formula points above all to God’s dependability, as the addition in Ezekiel 37:14 ‘I have spoken and I shall carry it out.’ The same is shown by the twenty-one passages where it underlines an oath of God” It is from the dark clouds in our sky that the showers of blessing come. because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, God assures Abraham again that His covenant with him would be fulfilled. and as the sand which is on the seashore (cf. Ge 13:16 and Ge 15:5). Theodore Epp - PASSING THE TEST Genesis 22:13-19 Abraham had proven he was willing to sacrifice everything--even his son of promise. He evidenced that his greatest need was to know God. This reminds us of the Apostle Paul's statement: "That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death" (Phil. 3:10). Genesis 22:16 records God's words: "By myself have I sworn." Because there is no one greater, God can swear by no one greater than Himself. God told Abraham that He would bless him and multiply his seed as the stars of heaven (spiritual seed) and as the sand on the seashore (earthly seed) and that his seed would possess the gate of his enemies. The time is coming when the nation of Israel will possess the gate of her enemies--both her religious and earthly enemies. Abraham experienced the truth of the principle stated in Romans 8:31,32: "What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" Abraham had graduated. His days of probation and testing were over. His diploma was inscribed with the words "Abraham, the friend of God and the father of the faithful." "Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf" (1 Pet. 4:16). Genesis 22:17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your SEED as the stars of the heavens, and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your SEED shall possess the gate of their enemies. BGT Genesis 22:17 ἦ μὴν εὐλογῶν εὐλογήσω σε καὶ πληθύνων πληθυνῶ τὸ σπέρμα σου ὡς τοὺς ἀστέρας τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ὡς τὴν ἄμμον τὴν παρὰ τὸ χεῖλος τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ κληρονομήσει τὸ σπέρμα σου τὰς πόλεις τῶν ὑπεναντίων LXE Genesis 22:17 surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and thy seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies. KJV Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; NET Genesis 22:17 I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies. CSB Genesis 22:17 I will indeed bless you and make your offspring as numerous as the stars of the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gates of their enemies. ESV Genesis 22:17 I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies, NIV Genesis 22:17 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, NLT Genesis 22:17 I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies. NRS Genesis 22:17 I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies, NJB Genesis 22:17 I will shower blessings on you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will gain possession of the gates of their enemies. NAB Genesis 22:17 I will bless you abundantly and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants shall take possession of the gates of their enemies, YLT Genesis 22:17 that blessing I bless thee, and multiplying I multiply thy seed as stars of the heavens, and as sand which is on the sea-shore; and thy seed doth possess the gate of his enemies; bless : Ge 12:2 27:28,29 28:3,14-22 49:25,26 De 28:2-13 Eph 1:3 multiply : Ge 13:16 15:5 17:6 26:4 De 1:10 Jer 33:22 seashore : Heb. lip, 1Ki 9:26 seed : Ge 24:60 Nu 24:17-19 De 21:19 Jos 1:1-10:43 2Sa 8:1-18 10:1-19 Ps 2:8,9 72:8,9 Jer 32:22 Da 2:44,45 Mic 1:9 Lu 1:68-75 1Co 15:57 Rev 11:15 Genesis 22 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries JEHOVAH PROMISES BLESSING AND MULTIPLICATION Indeed I will greatly bless (barak barak) you, - Both uses of "seed" are not plural seeds but masculine singular "seed" see Galatians 3:16 for the prophetic significance Literally - Blessing I will bless you = this Hebrew construction stresses the intensive nature of the action; i.e., I will bless you hyper-superabundantly! The name Abraham is regularly associated with blessing (Genesis 12:2-3; 14:19; 17:16, 20; 24:1, 35), but this is the only time in Genesis that the infinitive absolute “really” is used to reinforce the verb, so making the contents of this promise surpass all others. Or stated another way, the doubling of these verbs (blessing I will bless you) and the ones that follow (multiplying I will multiply) is a Hebrew idiom that powerfully emphasizes the certainty of the action. The Lxx of this verse is quoted verbatim in Heb 6:14 “I WILL SURELY BLESS YOU AND I WILL SURELY MULTIPLY YOU.” Lawrence Richards on because you have done this...I will surely bless you - - Let’s not misunderstand. The ultimate cause of blessing was God’s covenant promise. But the proximate cause—the means God used to bring Abraham to the place where he could be blessed—was Abraham’s obedience. God intends to bless you and me. He is committed to do so. Yet only an obedient walk enables us to appropriate that blessing. It’s as if rain is falling just over the hill. We smell its freshness, are eager to feel the renewing drops. And there’s a path marked “Obedience” leading directly to it. God’s blessings do fall in refreshing showers. But only those who take the path marked “Obedience” experience them. If there is anything God wants you to do that you have hesitated to do, let Abraham’s experience encourage you to set out now. (BORROW The 365 day devotional commentary) Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who dwells in thee; and do great things as if they were little, because of His omnipotence. —Blaise Pascal and I will greatly multiply (literal - multiplying I multiply) your SEED (zera) as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore - In Ge 22:17,18, three times God used the word seed (zera) in the singular, instead of "seeds" plural. Paul explains this as a prophecy of the coming Messiah (Gal 3:16+ Acts 3:25+) instead of a prophecy of all the children of Abraham. This argument is predicated on the truth of verbal plenary inspiration, which even makes a fine distinction between singular and plural. Utley on stars and sand - These are two of several metaphors used to describe the multitudinous nature of Abraham's descendants (cf. dust, Genesis 13:16; Genesis 28:14; Numbers 23:10; stars, Genesis 15:5; Genesis 26:4; and sand, Genesis 32:12). Henry