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Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh. As it is said to this day, "In Yahweh`s mountain it will be provided.
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Jehovah-Jireh: Our Provider
Abraham names the place "Jehovah-jireh," meaning "The Lord will provide." Commentators explain this name is a memorial to God's timely provision of the ram. As Charles Spurgeon highlights, if God provided for this ultimate crisis, we can trust Him to foresee and provide for every need in our lives. This name encourages believers throughout history to trust cheerfully in God's faithful provision.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
2. מריה morı̂yâh — “Moriah”; Samaritan: מוראה môr'âh; Septuagint, ὑψηλή hupsēlē — Onkelos, “w…
19th Century
Anglican
Jehovah-jireh.—This means, Jehovah will provide. In Genesis 22:8, Abraham had said, “Elohim-jireh,” meaning God will …
Baptist
God will foresee; "God will provide"—as we usually say—which is interpreted as fore-see. He will have everything ready for the time when it will be…
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16th Century
Protestant
And Abraham called the name of that place. He not only, by the act of thanksgiving, acknowledges, at the time, that God has, in a remarkab…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh Which may be rendered either "the Lord has seen", as the Sept…
It was not God's intention that Isaac should actually be sacrificed. Yet, in due time, nobler blood than that of animals was to be shed for sin—eve…
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