Nave’s Topical Bible
Isaac
46 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- The miraculous son of Abraham
Genesis 17:15-19; Genesis 18:1-15; Genesis 21:1-8; Joshua 24:3; 1 Chronicles 1:28; Galatians 4:28; Hebrews 11:11
- Ancestor of Jesus
- Offered in sacrifice by his father
- Is provided a wife from among his relatives
- Abrahamic covenant confirmed in
- Lives in the south country at the well called Lahai-roi
- With Ishmael, buries his father in the cave of Machpelah
- Esau and Jacob born to
- Lives in Gerar
- Prospers
- Possesses large flocks and herds
- Digs wells, and is defrauded of them by the herdsmen of Abimelech
- Moves away to the valley of Gerar, afterward called Beer-sheba
- His old age, last blessing upon his sons
- Death and burial of
- His filial obedience
- His peaceableness
- Was a prophet
- His devoutness
Genesis 24:63; Genesis 25:21; Genesis 26:25; Matthew 8:11; Luke 13:28
- Prophecies concerning
Genesis 17:16-21; Genesis 18:10-14; Genesis 21:12; Genesis 26:2-5,24; Exodus 32:13; 1 Chronicles 16:16; Romans 9:7
- A designation of the ten tribes
Bible verses about “Isaac”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 17:15And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarah shall her name be.
- Genesis 17:16And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of nations; kings of people shall be of her.
- Genesis 17:17Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?
- Genesis 17:18And Abraham said unto God, O that Ishmael might live before thee!
- Genesis 17:19And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I will establish my covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him.
- Genesis 18:1And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day;
- Genesis 18:2And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground,
- Genesis 18:3And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant:
- Genesis 18:4Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree:
- Genesis 18:5And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.
- Genesis 18:6And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.
- Genesis 18:7And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.
- Genesis 18:8And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
- Genesis 18:9And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, Behold, in the tent.
- Genesis 18:10And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.
- Genesis 18:11Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.
- Genesis 18:12Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
- Genesis 18:13And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
- Genesis 18:14Is any thing too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
- Genesis 18:15Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
- Genesis 21:1And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.
- Genesis 21:2For Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
- Genesis 21:3And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.
- Genesis 21:4And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.
- Genesis 21:5And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.
- Genesis 21:6And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me.
- Genesis 21:7And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.
- Genesis 21:8And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
- Joshua 24:3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
- 1 Chronicles 1:28The sons of Abraham; Isaac, and Ishmael.
- Galatians 4:28Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
- Hebrews 11:11Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
- Matthew 1:2Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;
- Genesis 22:1And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
- Genesis 22:2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
- Genesis 22:3And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
- Genesis 22:4Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
- Genesis 22:5And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
- Genesis 22:6And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
- Genesis 22:7And Isaac spake unto 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 lamb for a burnt offering?