Isaac

A journey · 7 stops

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Isaac · −1918 – −1738

1. Beersheba −1918 – −1882
The promised son is born to Abraham and Sarah in their old age and grows up among his father's wells.
2. Moriah −1881 – −1881
He walks with his father up the mountain and is bound on the altar, until the angel calls out and a ram takes his place.
3. Beersheba −1880 – −1880
Father and son come home together from the mountain to the wells of Beersheba.
4. Beer-lahai-roi −1878 – −1850
Living in the Negev by this well, he looks up from the field at evening and sees Rebecca arriving. Here, too, Jacob and Esau are born.
5. Gerar −1848 – −1835
Famine brings him to Abimelech's land. He grows so rich that the Philistines envy him, and they stop up his father's wells as he digs them again.
6. Beersheba −1834 – −1780
Abimelech comes to make peace. Old and blind, Isaac blesses Jacob, thinking he is Esau, and sends him away to find a wife.
7. Hebron −1779 – −1738
He dies at Mamre, full of years. Jacob and Esau, reconciled, bury him together in the Cave of Machpelah.