Isaac

The family line of Abraham continues with his son Isaac (Terah to Isaac family chart). What is interesting about Isaac is that there is very little mentioned about him compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob. The narrator “seems” to be less interested in his life than in the other two. From the little that is told about him, he seems to be much like his father. As mentioned previously, he demonstrated the same unwavering faith in Yahweh as his father did at his sacrifice. On the other hand, he also repeated the sin of passing off his wife Rebekah as his sister to a foreign ruler in fear of his own life (Gen. 26).

Rebekah is the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother Nahor and seems to be a strong woman of character in her willingness to leave her home and go to Canaan to marry a man she has never met (Gen. 24). Isaac and Rebekah’s love for each other seems, from the little that is mentioned, to have been genuine and deep.

However, later in their life, when their children Esau and Jacob are older, they are also willing to deceive each other over what they want for the child they favor the most (Gen. 27:6-10).