The God of Abraham Praise is a Christian adaptation of the well known Jewish hymn "Yigdal", loosely translated and Christianised by the evangelist Thomas Olivers after a visit to the Great Synagogue of London in 1770.
[4] Olivers worked with John Wesley during the time that "The God of Abraham Praise" was written.
In 1772, Olivers was attending The Great Synagogue in London and heard Cantor Myer Lyon sing "Yigdal" in Hebrew during a service.
Olivers then paraphrased and translated "Yigdal" into English and gave the hymn more of a Christian focus.
[6] The Judeo-Christian context of "The God of Abraham Praise" has caused the hymn to be used in interfaith services between Jews and Christians.