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Midrash su Genesi 21:22

וַֽיְהִי֙ בָּעֵ֣ת הַהִ֔וא וַיֹּ֣אמֶר אֲבִימֶ֗לֶךְ וּפִיכֹל֙ שַׂר־צְבָא֔וֹ אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֖ם לֵאמֹ֑ר אֱלֹהִ֣ים עִמְּךָ֔ בְּכֹ֥ל אֲשֶׁר־אַתָּ֖ה עֹשֶֽׂה׃

In quel tempo Abimèlech, accompagnato da Pichòl, capo del suo esercito, disse ad Abramo: Iddio è con te in tutto ciò che tu fai.

Sefer HaYashar (midrash)

And after the death of Abimelech the people of Gerar took his son Benmelech, who was then ‎only twelve years of age, and they made him king in his father's place; and they called his ‎name Abimelech after his father, for such was their way of doing in Gerar. And Abimelech ‎ruled in the place of his father and he sat upon his throne. And Lot the son of Haran died also ‎in these days, in the thirty-ninth year of Isaac's life; and all the days that Lot lived were one ‎hundred and forty years when he died. And these are the sons of Lot, born unto him by his ‎daughters. The name of the first-born was Moab and the name of the second was Benamy. ‎And the two sons of Lot took unto themselves wives from the land of Canaan, and they bare ‎unto them children. And these were the children of Moab: Ed, and Majon, and Tarsus, and ‎Canvil, four sons, and they are the fathers of the children of Moab even unto this day. And all ‎the families of the children of Lot went forth to dwell wherever they should find a suitable ‎place, for they were very fruitful and they increased greatly. And they went out and built cities ‎unto themselves in the land of their habitation, calling the names of the cities which they built ‎after their own names. And Nahor son of Terah, Abraham's brother, died in those days, in the ‎fortieth year of the life of Isaac; and all the days of Nahor were one hundred and seventy-two ‎years, and when he died he was buried in Haran. And when Abraham heard of his brother's ‎death he was full of grief and sorrow and he mourned over him many days. And Abraham ‎called Eliezer, his head-servant, to give him orders concerning his house, and he came and ‎stood before him, and Abraham said unto him: Behold I am old, I do not know the day I may ‎die, for verily I am advanced in years. And now arise and go forth and do not take a wife for my ‎son from this place, nor from this land, from the midst of the daughters of the Canaanites ‎among whom we are dwelling. But go thou to my land and to my native place and take from ‎there a wife for my son. And the Lord God of heaven and earth who hath taken me from the ‎house of my father and brought me to this place; and who hath said unto me: To thy seed I will ‎give this land for an inheritance forever, he will send his angel before thee and give thee ‎success on thy way that thou mayest procure a wife for my son from my family and from the ‎house of my father. And the servant answered unto Abraham his master saying: Behold I will ‎go to thy birth-place and to thy father's house to take a wife for thy son from there. But per ‎adventure the woman will not be willing to follow me into this land; must I need bring thy son ‎again unto the land whence thou camest?
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Bereishit Rabbah

"And Avraham called the name of the place "Ad-nai Yireh" [Ad-nai will see] (Gen. 22:14). Rabbi Yochanan said "he said to Him: 'Master of Worlds, at the hour that you said to me "Take please your son, your only son" (Gen. 22:2), I had what to respond. Yesterday You said "For through Itzchak [will I make your line great]" (Gen. 21:22) but now "Take please your son"!? And God forbid that I don't do as you've asked me; instead, I conquered my mercy to do Your will. May it be your will, Ad-nai our God, that in the hour when the sons of Itzchak come to do transgressions and bad deeds, that this very Binding [Akeidah] be remembered for them, and may You be filled with Mercy on them!' Avraham called it "Yireh", as it says "and Avraham called the name of the place Ad-nai Yireh." Shem called it Shalem, as it says "And Malchitzedek, the king of Shalem..."(Genesis 14:18) The Holy One of Blessing said "If I call it Yireh, as Avraham called it, then Shem, who was a righteous man, will become angry; and if I call it Shalem, Abraham, who was a righteous man, will be angry. Instead, I call it Yerushalayim [Jerusalem], as they called it together: Yireh Shalem. Jerusalem. Rabbi Berechiah said in Rabbi Helbo’s name: While it was Shalem, the Holy One of Blessing made for Godself a sukkah [booth] and prayed in it, since it says "In Shalem is set His tabernacle, and His dwelling-place in Tzion" (Psalms 76:3). And what did He say? ‘May it happen that I see the building of My house." Another interpretation: It [this verse] teaches that the Holy One of Blessing showed him the Temple destroyed and built, destroyed and build [a second time], since it says: "the name of that place Ad-nai Yireh" (Ad-nai sees): this is it built, as you say [the verse] "Three times in a year shall all your males be seen [yira'eh] (Deut. 16:16). "As it is said to this day in the Mountain of Ad-nai [is seen, Heb. yira'eh]" (Gen.22:14) This is it destroyed, as in the verse "on the mountain of Tzion, which is desolate" (Lam. 5:18). "Ad-nai is seen" this is it built and perfected in the future to come as the topic [in the verse] that is said: "When Ad-nai built Tzion, He will be seen in His glory" (Psalms 102:17).
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