Creation & Patriarchs
Abraham offers Isaac on Moriah
Abraham offers Isaac on Moriah is dated 2066–2029 BC in the Modern reckoning and 1872 BC in the Traditional. It is told in 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.”
When did it happen?
- Modern reckoning
- 2066–2029 BC
- Traditional reckoning
- 1872 BC
- How it's dated
- the Bible's numbers
Between Isaac's birth (Abraham aged 100) and Sarah's death (Genesis 23:1, Isaac aged 37); Genesis doesn't say Isaac's age.
Dates before about 900 BC depend on how the Bible's own numbers are added up. Why the two reckonings differ.
Sources: Theographic verse years, Genesis 22; Genesis 21:5; 23:1.
Where is it in the Bible?
Promises kept
- God will provide the lamb: Abraham offers Isaac on Moriah → John: “Look, the Lamb of God”, ~2,060–2,090 years (Modern).
- The wood on the son's back: Abraham offers Isaac on Moriah → The crucifixion, ~2,060–2,100 years (Modern).
Which verses connect to Genesis 22:2?
The strongest cross-references of the key verse, ranked by reader votes (OpenBible.info).
- 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.
- 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?
- Hebrews 11:1713 votes
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,
- 1 John 4:9–108 votes
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.
- Genesis 17:195 votes
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.
- Genesis 22:125 votes
“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.”
Events, people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (Robert Rouse), CC BY-SA 4.0, reshaped; dates also from the sources named on each anchor.