Isaac, son of Abraham and Sarah, appears in the Nephite record chiefly as a member of the covenant lineage. He was born to his parents in their old age (Genesis 17:17; 18:11), a birth the entry compares to the later virgin birth of Jesus Christ (Luke 1:34). Nephite and later writers repeatedly invoke the Lord as “the God of Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob” (1 Nephi 6:4; 19:10; Mosiah 7:19; Alma 29:11; 3 Nephi 4:30; Mormon 9:11), and identify the same God as the one who covenanted with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and delivered their descendants from Egypt and bondage (1 Nephi 17:40; Mosiah 23:23; Alma 36:2).
Abraham’s offering of Isaac is read in the record as a similitude of the Father and the Son. Jacob writes that the law of Moses was accounted to the Nephites for righteousness “even as it was accounted unto Abraham in the wilderness to be obedient unto the commands of God in offering up his son Isaac, which is a similitude of God and his Only Begotten Son” (Jacob 4:5). In the Genesis account Isaac was bound on the altar and then spared when the Lord provided a ram (Genesis 22:9-13).
The Old Testament records Isaac’s marriage, arranged through a servant Abraham sent to find him a wife (Genesis 24), and his dealings with the Philistines over wells and water rights as he prospered in the land (Genesis 26:12-22).
Nephite prophets name Isaac among the patriarchs with whom the righteous will sit down in the kingdom of heaven (Helaman 3:30; Alma 5:24; 7:25). A later revelation states that Isaac, like Abraham and Jacob, “did none other things than that which they were commanded” and so “have entered into their exaltation” and “sit upon thrones” (D&C 132:37).