0 In Genesis 22, Why did God bless Abraham?

Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. Micah 7:5

Trivia: In Matthew 10:35-36, Jesus said that he came to set one family member against another. To what Old Testament verse was he alluding?

In Genesis 22, Why did God bless Abraham?


Because he was willing to sacrifice his son as a burnt offering to God

And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice. Genesis 22:16

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