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Abraham’s mountain

Abraham’s mountain shows up again in the Bible. The last time, it’s the cross.

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Abraham’s mountain: the story, stop by stop

This story follows 7 passages of the Bible, from Genesis 22:2 to Hebrews 11:19. Every gold arc is a cross-reference in the OpenBible.info data, and every verse is quoted word for word from the Berean Standard Bible.

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  1. 1 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.”

    God tells Abraham to take Isaac to the land of Moriah and offer him there.

  2. 2 Genesis 22:6

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

    A son climbs a hill carrying the wood for the sacrifice. Remember that picture.

  3. 3 Genesis 22:14

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

    God stops Abraham’s hand and provides a ram instead. Abraham names the place for what God did there.

  4. 4 2 Chronicles 3:1

    Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, where the LORD had appeared to his father David. This was the place that David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

    About a thousand years later, Solomon builds the temple on Mount Moriah, the name of Abraham’s mountain.

    • 2 Chronicles 3:1 → Genesis 22:14 · 7 reader votes
    • 2 Chronicles 3:1 → Genesis 22:2 · 4 reader votes

  5. 5 John 3:16

    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.

    Jesus speaks of a Father who gives His only Son, as Abraham was asked to.

    • Genesis 22:2 → John 3:16 · 43 reader votes
    • John 3:16 → Genesis 22:12 · 166 reader votes

  6. 6 John 19:17

    Carrying His own cross, He went out to The Place of the Skull, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

    On a hill outside Jerusalem, a Son carries the wood again. Isaac was spared; Jesus was not. Many have linked the two hills.

    • Genesis 22:6 → John 19:17 · 12 reader votes

  7. 7 Hebrews 11:19

    Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead, and in a sense, he did receive Isaac back from death.

    Hebrews says Abraham went up that mountain trusting that God could give Isaac back.

    • Genesis 22:5 → Hebrews 11:19 · 5 reader votes

Isaac was spared on that mountain. At the cross, God gave His own Son.

Made from a Christ Reels video. A cross-reference is a reader’s judgement that two passages belong together, not proof; what the links are.

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