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Genesis 22:15

And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

KJV

Vocavit autem angelus Domini Abraham secundo de cælo, dicens :

Vulgate

καὶ ἐκάλεσεν ἄγγελος Κυρίου τὸν Ἀβραὰμ δεύτερον ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ

LXX

And the angel of Jehovah called unto Abraham a second time out of heaven,

ASV

וַ/יִּקְרָ֛א מַלְאַ֥ךְ יְהוָ֖ה אֶל אַבְרָהָ֑ם שֵׁנִ֖ית מִן הַ/שָּׁמָֽיִם

Hebrew

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People Abraham

In the original Hebrew

8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶל
'l
preposition · 5475×
אַבְרָהָ֖ם
'brhm
proper_noun · 174×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
יִּקְרָ֥א
yqr'
verb · 737×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
מַלְאַ֣ךְ
ml'k
noun · 212×
שֵּׁנִ֔י
shny
noun · 157×
שָּׁמַ֔יִם
shmym
noun · 419×

Theophany

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1819Christian hope takes up and fulfills the hope of the chosen people which has its origin and model in the hope of Abraham, who was blessed abundantly by the promises of God fulfilled in Isaac, and who was purified by the test of the sacrifice.86 "Hoping against hope, he believed, and thus became the father of many nations."87
Chapter 32.—Of Abraham’s Obedience and Faith, Which Were Proved by the Offering Up, of His Son in Sacrifice, and of Sarah’s Death. Among other things, of which it would take too long time to mention the whole, Abraham was tempted about the offering up of his well-beloved son Isaac, to prove his pious obedience, and so make it known to the world, not to God. Now every temptation…

Cross-references

  • Acts 7:30 — And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
  • Exod 3:2 — And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
  • Gen 16:7 — And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
  • Gen 16:10 — And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
  • Gen 18:10 — And 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.
  • Heb 6:13 — For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,
  • Isa 45:23 — I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.