The Ram
On Mount Moriah, as Abraham prepared to offer Isaac, he looked up and saw 'a ram caught in a thicket by his horns,' and offered it 'in the stead of his son.' The ram became one of Scripture's first great pictures of substitution, a life given in place of another. Under the Law rams were offered at the consecration of priests and as trespass offerings, their horns became the trumpets that sounded at Jericho, and in Daniel's vision a two-horned ram stood for the kings of Media and Persia.
Key Passages
The Ram in the Thicket
Genesis 22:13-14
God provides a ram to die in Isaac's place, and Abraham names the mountain 'Jehovahjireh' - the LORD will provide.
13nd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
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God provided the ram on Mount Moriah, and Abraham named the place Jehovahjireh, 'the LORD will provide.'
The priests at Jericho blew 'seven trumpets of rams' horns' as they circled the city.
A 'ram of consecration' was offered when Aaron and his sons were ordained as priests.
In Daniel 8 a two-horned ram stands for 'the kings of Media and Persia.'