Isaac

• Found: Genesis chapter 22-24

God Demands a Sacrifice (Genesis 22)

Isaac grew up into a strong young boy and Abraham loved him. Then God tested Abraham. He asked him to take Isaac to a mountain and sacrifice him there. The next morning Abraham rose up, cut some wood, and took Isaac and two servants off on the journey.

It took three days to get to the foot of the mountain. There Abraham and Isaac went on alone. Isaac asked where the lamb was that they would sacrifice, and Abraham replied "God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering". When they got to the place God wanted, Abraham made an altar, put the wood on it and tied his son to the altar. He had just raised the knife to take Isaac's life when the angel of the Lord called from heaven.

The angel said that Abraham had proved his love for God, and he wasn't to sacrifice his son. Looking up, Abraham saw that a ram was tangled in the bushes. God had provided.

Isaac Gets a Wife (Genesis 24)

Isaac grew up in Abraham's household. After some years, Abraham was worried. Isaac didn't have a wife to continue his family and Abraham didn't want him to marry anyone from the surrounding area. So Abraham got his servant, Eliezer, to go back to his homeland and find Isaac a wife.

Eliezer traveled to Nahor. There he stopped by a well and pondered what to do. He prayed to God that when a girl came out to fetch water and he asked her for a drink, she would offer his camels water if she was God's chosen one.

Sure enough, before he finished praying, a girl named Rebekah came to collect water from the well. Eliezer asked her for some water and she gave him a drink. Then she offered to draw water for his camels. Eliezer knew she was the one. Asking her who she was, he found out she was Abraham's grand-niece. He went in to talk with her family and they all agreed Rebekah would go back to be Isaac's wife

As they journeyed back home, Isaac was out in a field meditating. Rebekah saw him and asked Eliezer who he was. On finding out this was Isaac, she covered her face with a veil so he wouldn't see her face before they were married. They went to Isaac's mother's tent and were married there.

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