Then God said to Abraham, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah, kill him as a sacrifice on a mountain I will show you, reads a verse in the Bible.
In an allegedly similar to the above, police in Tengwe have arrested Kevison Murengwa (33) in connection with a case of murder which occurred at Madzimoyo Farm on 21/04/24.
The suspect confessed to the police that he strangled his son to death after allegedly being ordered by an Angel to do so.
Apparently, in Abraham’s case, the Lord was only testing his faith as He (God) did not really want him to kill his son.
According to the Bible, when they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
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