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One of the great patriarchs of Israel was Isaac, son of Abraham and father of Jacob. Compared to the Father of Nations and a man who wrestled with God, Isaac can be easily overlooked.
Isaac[a] is one of the three patriarchs of the Israelites and an important figure in the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Isaac first appears in the Torah, in which he is the son of Abraham and Sarah, the father of Jacob and Esau, and the grandfather of the twelve tribes of Israel.
Isaac is the miracle child who Sarah laughed about when God came to deliver Abraham a message about how Sarah would give birth to a son. He is the second patriarch of Israel. And like Abraham, he makes the mistake of favoritism. He favors his son Esau over Jacob.
Answer. The name Isaac, which means “he laughs,” was derived from his parents’ reaction when God told Abraham that he, at 100 years old, and his wife Sarah, at the age of 90, would have a son (Genesis 17:17; 18:12). Isaac was Abraham’s second son; his first, Ishmael, was by Sarah’s maidservant, Hagar, as a result of Sarah’s ...
Isaac in the Bible is the miracle son of Abraham, one of the great Jewish patriarchs. Learn how he fulfilled God's promise to father a great nation.
Isaac, for the most part, lived on the fringes of the land, either close to Gerar or down by Beersheba. Abraham, on the contrary, moved freely up and down through the length and breadth of the land, seeking contacts rather than shunning them.
Isaac was born as the son of promise to Abraham and Sarah. His mother Sarah had been barren and despite God’s promise that she and her husband Abraham would have as child, she took matters into her own hands by giving her Egyptian maid, Hagar, to Abraham to conceive a child.
Isaac, in the biblical book of Genesis, the second of the patriarchs of Israel, the only son of Abraham and Sarah, and the father of Esau and Jacob. To test Abraham’s obedience, God commanded Abraham to sacrifice the boy.
He is most famous for his central role in the Binding of Isaac, when he was almost offered up as a sacrifice to G‑d. He carried on his father’s work of spreading monotheism and knowledge of G‑d throughout Mesopotamia. He is commonly referred to as Yitzchak Avinu, “Isaac our Forefather.”.
Isaac. (laughter), the son whom Sara bore to Abraham, in the hundredth year of his age, at Gerar. (B.C. 1897.) In his infancy he became the object of Ishmael's jealousy; and in his youth the victim, in intention, of Abraham's great sacrificial act of faith.