Bible verse
And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
Genesis 22:14 · BSB
Abraham does not name God here. He names the mountain. "Jehovah Jireh" is a location — the ground where the ram turned up — and the sentence after it explains why the name stuck: people were still repeating it generations later.
The Hebrew root behind Jireh is closer to "see" than to "supply". Read that way the claim is not that God reacts quickly, it is that He saw the need before the walk up ever started. The ram was already in the thicket while Abraham was still climbing the other side.
The whole story behind Jehovah Jireh
Three days of walking, a question from a boy carrying firewood, and a name that outlived everyone who was there.
Read itThe verses around it, from Genesis 22.
10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11 Just then 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 or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
13 Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
16 saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
17 I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
18 And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
KJV
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
ASV
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided.
ERV
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be provided.
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