Isaac (Old Testament)

After the covenant between Abraham and Melchizedek, Isaac was born as promised, and this made Abraham take his covenant very seriously 93:6.5 93:9.8

The idea of ​​Abraham sacrificing Isaac was a very common idea at that time, which Abraham finally refused to commit 89:6.8

Abraham secured a wife for Isaac by sending servants to his brother Nahor's city to find one for him there 93:9.4

Isaac kept his father's teachings well and promoted the gospel of the Salem colony 93:9.5

Bible parallels

Passages that the paragraphs cited above parallel, quote or reinterpret, from Duane Faw’s Paramony cross-references. Hover a reference to read it.

• Birth of Isaac 93:6.5 — Gn 15:2-4; Gn 17:4-7,16-21; Gn 18:10-14; Gn 21:1-8.
• Formal covenant 93:6.5 — Gn 17:10-12,23-27.
• Name changed to Abraham 93:6.5 — Gn 17:5.
• Ketura was not a wife 93:9.8 — Gn 25:1; 1 Ch 1:32.
• Isaac's inheritance 93:9.8 — Gn 25:5.
• Abraham's age 93:9.8 — Gn 17:1,17; Gn 18:11; Gn 21:2,5; Gn 24:1; Gn 25:7-8.
• Sarah's age 93:9.8 — Gn 17:17; Gn 18:11; Gn 23:1.
• Isaac's miraculous birth 93:9.8 — Gn 17:16-17; Gn 18:10-12; Gn 21:1-8.
• Sacrificing Isaac 89:6.8 — Gn 22:1-10.
• Treaty 93:9.4 — Gn 21:22-32.
• Superstitions 93:9.4 — Gn 22:1-2.
• Return to Hebron 93:9.4 — Gn 23:2,17-20.
• Obtained Isaac a wife 93:9.4 — Gn 24:2-4,9; Gn 24:36-38,51.
• Abraham's death 93:9.4 — Gn 25:8.
• Dreamer 93:9.5 — Gn 37:19.
• Civil administrator 93:9.5 — Gn 41:41.