And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
Abraham rose up early ... That there might be no appearance of delay or reluctance on his part, he made every preparation for the sacrifice before setting out-the cleft wood, the knife, the donkey that was to convey the materials, and the servants that were to take charge of them on the journey to Moriah. All that time he had the dreadful secret pent up in his own bosom; and as: a place so distant, yet so distinctly specified, must have been chosen for some important reason, it is generally thought that "the place which God had told him of," was the hill at Jerusalem on which the Great Sacrifice was afterward offered.