Quotes About Isaac

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

Isaac and I are going to Israel to ride for peace enviromental justice and a safer world for us all.

for Isaac was neither afraid nor terrified, but of his own accord obeyed his father and God. For not terror but spontaneous obedience and fortitude should be attributed to the saints. For fear signifies that sin is ruling, and sin was not ruling in Isaac, but an obedient spirit. Although the flesh fought back, nevertheless the spirit, which subjected the flesh to itself, conquered and gained dominion. But

He bowed her head, working his hands; then he turned and started walking backwards again, facing her. Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered is Isaac did this all the time – and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

Canaanite "genocide" • the binding of Isaac • a jealous, egocentric deity • ethnocentrism/racism • chattel slavery • bride-price • women as inferior to men • harsh laws in Israel • the Mosaic law as perfect and permanently binding for all nations • the irrelevance of God for morality

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.

But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”

And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.

So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.

His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron son of Zohar the Hittite.

After Abrahamís death, God blessed his son Isaac, who lived near Beer-lahai-roi.

This is the account of Abrahamís son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

and Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan-aram and the sister of Laban the Aramean.

Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.

Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abrahamís time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

Then Isaacís servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaacís herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,

So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.