Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 6. Took the wood-and laid it upon Isaac] Probably the mountain-top to which they were going was too difficult to be ascended by the ass; therefore either the father or the son must carry the wood, and it was most becoming in the latter.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 3-10 - Never was any gold tried in so hot a fire. Who but Abraham would no have argued with God? Such would have been the thought of a weak heart but Abraham knew that he had to do with a God, even Jehovah. Faith ha taught him not to argue, but to obey. He is sure that what God command is good; that what he promises cannot be broken. In matters of God whoever consults with flesh and blood, will never offer up his Isaac to God. The good patriarch rises early, and begins his sad journey. An now he travels three days, and Isaac still is in his sight! Misery is made worse when long continued. The expression, We will come again to you, shows that Abraham expected that Isaac, being raised from the dead, would return with him. It was a very affecting question tha Isaac asked him, as they were going together: "My father," said Isaac it was a melting word, which, one would think, should strike deeper in the heart of Abraham, than his knife could in the heart of Isaac. Ye he waits for his son's question. Then Abraham, where he meant not prophesies: "My son, God will provide a lamb for a burnt-offering." The Holy Spirit, by his mouth, seems to predict the Lamb of God, which he has provided, and which taketh away the sin of the world. Abraham lay the wood in order for his Isaac's funeral pile, and now tells him the amazing news: Isaac, thou art the lamb which God has provided! Abraham no doubt, comforting him with the same hopes with which he himself by faith was comforted. Yet it is necessary that the sacrifice be bound The great Sacrifice, which, in the fulness of time, was to be offere up, must be bound, and so must Isaac. This being done, Abraham take the knife, and stretches out his hand to give the fatal blow. Here in an act of faith and obedience, which deserves to be a spectacle to God angels, and men. God, by his providence, calls us to part with an Isaa sometimes, and we must do it with cheerful submission to his holy will 1Sa 3:18.
Original Hebrew ויקח3947 אברהם85 את853 עצי6086 העלה5930 וישׂם7760 על5921 יצחק3327 בנו1121 ויקח3947 בידו3027 את853 האשׁ784 ואת853 המאכלת3979 וילכו1980 שׁניהם8147 יחדו׃3162
