Cross references

Genesis 22:2

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Genesis 22:2 BSB

Genesis 22:2 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 9 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to John 3:16 (43 votes) and Romans 8:32 (35 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from Genesis 8 to 1 John 4.

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Which verses does Genesis 22:2 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. John 3:1643 votes

    For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

  2. Romans 8:3235 votes

    He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?

  3. By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,

  4. This is how God’s love was revealed among us: God sent His one and only Son into the world, so that we might live through Him. And love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

  5. But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.

  6. “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”

  7. saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,

  8. After two months, she returned to her father, and he did to her as he had vowed. And she had never had relations with a man. So it has become a custom in Israel

  9. So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.

  10. But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

  11. Romans 5:82 votes
  12. Micah 6:71 vote

Which verses point to Genesis 22:2?

The 10 strongest of 20.