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Heb. 11:17 KJV (With Strong’s)

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By faith Abraham, when hed was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,*

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Gen. 22:1• ¹And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! and he said, Here am I. (Gen. 22:1)

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James 2:21• ²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? (James 2:21)

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faith.

Gen. 22:1‑12• ¹And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! and he said, Here am I.
²And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
³And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.
⁴On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
⁵And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
⁶And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both of them together.
⁷And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the sheep for a burnt-offering?
⁸And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself with the sheep for a burnt-offering. And they went both of them together.
⁹And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood; and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
¹⁰And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.
¹¹And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.
¹²And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. (Gen. 22:1‑12)

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James 2:21‑24• ²¹Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
²²Thou seest that faith wrought with his works, and that by works faith was perfected.
²³And the scripture was fulfilled which says, Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness, and he was called Friend of God.
²⁴Ye see that a man is justified on the principle of works, and not on the principle of faith only. (James 2:21‑24)

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Deut. 8:2• ²And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not. (Deut. 8:2)

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2 Chron. 32:31• ³¹However in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart. (2 Chron. 32:31)

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Job 1:11‑12• ¹¹But put forth thy hand now and touch all that he hath, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!
¹²And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy hand; only upon himself put not forth thy hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of Jehovah. (Job 1:11‑12)

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Job 2:3‑6• ³And Jehovah said to Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God and abstaineth from evil? and still he remaineth firm in his integrity, though thou movedst me against him, to swallow him up without cause.
⁴And Satan answered Jehovah and said, Skin for skin, yea, all that a man hath will he give for his life;
⁵but put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and see if he will not curse thee to thy face!
⁶And Jehovah said to Satan, Behold, he is in thy hand; only spare his life. (Job 2:3‑6)

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Prov. 17:3• ³The fining-pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but Jehovah trieth the hearts. (Prov. 17:3)

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Dan. 11:35• ³⁵And some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed. (Dan. 11:35)

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Zech. 13:9• ⁹And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God. (Zech. 13:9)

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Mal. 3:2‑3• ²But who shall endure the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he will be like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' lye.
³And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he will purify the children of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah an oblation in righteousness. (Mal. 3:2‑3)

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James 1:2‑4• ²Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations,
³knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.
⁴But let endurance have its perfect work, that ye may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (James 1:2‑4)

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James 5:11• ¹¹Behold, we call them blessed who have endured. Ye have heard of the endurance of Job, and seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is full of tender compassion and pitiful. (James 5:11)

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1 Peter 1:6‑7• ⁶Wherein ye exult, for a little while at present, if needed, put to grief by various trials,
⁷that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ: (1 Peter 1:6‑7)

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1 Peter 4:12• ¹²Beloved, take not as strange the fire of persecution which has taken place amongst you for your trial, as if a strange thing was happening to you; (1 Peter 4:12)

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Rev. 3:10• ¹⁰Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, *I* also will keep thee out of the hour of trial, which is about to come upon the whole habitable world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. (Rev. 3:10)

received.

Heb. 7:6• ⁶but he who has no genealogy from them has tithed Abraham, and blessed him who had the promises. (Heb. 7:6)

offered.

2 Cor. 8:12• ¹²For if the readiness be there, a man is accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not. (2 Cor. 8:12)

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Gen. 22:2,16• ²And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
¹⁶and said, By myself I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, (Gen. 22:2,16)

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John 3:16• ¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal. (John 3:16)

• It was indeed putting the father of the faithful to the severest test conceivable, not only abandoning to the altar his only son and heir, and sacrificing him with his own hand, but jeopardizing to all appearance the promises both for his seed and in it blessing for all families of the earth. Alike natural affection, and religious hope when raised to high degree and wide extent by God's word in Isaac, seemed to reason by such a command arbitrarily, distressingly, and irrevocably lost. (“Hebrews 11:17-19” by W. Kelly)

• He gives up Isaac, in whom were the promises: he learns resurrection, for God is infallibly faithful. The promises were in Isaac: therefore, God must restore him to Abraham, and by resurrection, if he offered him in sacrifice. (“Hebrews 11” by J.N. Darby)

• If the life of faith is tried by the opportunities to turn back which are presented by the devil, it will also be tested to prove its worth by trials sent from God. So we learn that Abraham “was tried” when he was told to offer up Isaac. (“Faith Laying Hold of the World to Come: Hebrews 11:8-22” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himselff the promises offered up his only begotten son,

JND Translation Notes

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The Greek implies the will or action of the person receiving. It is used only here and in Acts 28.7. Publius received, "took," Paul and his company into his house. It has the sense of taking on oneself physically, or as a debt or responsibility. Abraham's own mind had taken up and appropriated the promises, and yet he gave up Isaac. It was not merely they were given and taken away, with which he had nothing to do; but he had adopted them by faith in his heart, and trusted God enough to give them up according to flesh.

W. Kelly Translation

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By faith Abraham when tried offered upa Isaac, and he that received to himself the promises was offeringb his only-begotten

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"[Hath] offered up" here is not really admissible in our tongue; yet it may be in a bracket to enforce the truth. It is difficult to express in English the force of the Greek perfect and imperfect. The one gives the result of the act as if accomplished, the other the historical fact that it did not actually take place.

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The imperfect tense. See previous footnote.