Genesis 26
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And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

Sojourn.

Genesis 26:12,14 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundred …

Genesis 20:1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelled …

Psalm 32:8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go: …

Psalm 37:1-6 Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious against …

Psalm 39:12 Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace …

Hebrews 11:9,13-16 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, …

I will be.

Genesis 28:15 And, behold, I am with you, and will keep you in all places where …

Genesis 39:2,21 And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he …

Isaiah 43:2,5 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through …

Philippians 4:9 Those things, which you have both learned, and received, and heard, …

unto thee.

Genesis 12:1,7 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and …

Genesis 13:15,17 For all the land which you see, to you will I give it, and to your …

Genesis 15:18 In the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, To your …

Genesis 17:8 And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land wherein …

oath.

Genesis 22:16,18 And said, By myself have I sworn, said the LORD, for because you …

Psalm 105:9 Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

Micah 7:20 You will perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which …

Hebrews 6:17 Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show to the heirs of promise …

And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

And the man waxed great. Dr. Adam Clarke remarks, that there is a strange and observable occurrence of the same term in the original, which is literally, 'And the man was GREAT, and he went, going on, and was GREAT, until that he was exceeding GREAT.' How simple is this language, and yet how forcible!

waxed great.

Genesis 24:35 And the LORD has blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: …

Psalm 112:3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endures for ever.

went forward. Heb. went going.

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

his father's.

Genesis 21:30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shall you take of my hand, …

had stopped. In those countries, a well of water was a great acquisition; and hence, this mode of injuring new settlers, or revenging themselves on their enemies, is still resorted to among the inhabitants.

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

Go. Dr. A. Clarke observes, that this is the first instance on record of what was termed among the Greeks, ostracism, i.e., the banishment of person from the state, of whose power, influence, or riches, the people were jealous.

mightier.

Exodus 1:9 And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of …

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.

I am the.

Genesis 15:1 After these things the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision, …

Genesis 17:7 And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your seed …

Genesis 24:12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham, I pray you, send me …

Genesis 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God …

Genesis 31:5 And said to them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not …

Exodus 3:6 Moreover he said, I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, …

Matthew 22:32 I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? …

Acts 7:32 Saying, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, and the …

fear.

Genesis 26:3,4 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; …

Genesis 13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a …

Genesis 22:19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together …

Psalm 27:1-3 The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD …

Psalm 46:1,2 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble…

Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for …

Isaiah 41:10,13-15 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …

Isaiah 43:1,2 But now thus said the LORD that created you, O Jacob, and he that …

Isaiah 44:2 Thus said the LORD that made you, and formed you from the womb, which …

Isaiah 51:7,12 Listen to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart …

Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to …

Hebrews 13:6 So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not …

Revelation 1:17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right …

And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge by R. A. Torrey [ca. 1880]
Expanded version courtesy INT Bible ©2013, Used by permission

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