Genesis 26
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.
A.M.
Genesis 12:10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt …
And Isaac.
Genesis 25:11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed …
Abimelech.
Genesis 20:2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech …
Genesis 21:22-32 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the …
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
appeared.
Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give …
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to …
Genesis 18:1,10-20 And the LORD appeared to him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in …
dwell.
Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and …
Psalm 37:3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shall you dwell in the land, and …
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;
multiply.
Genesis 13:16 And I will make your seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a …
Genesis 15:5,18 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, …
Genesis 17:4-8 As for me, behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be a father …
Genesis 18:18 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, …
Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply …
Hebrews 11:2 For by it the elders obtained a good report.
seed shall.
Genesis 12:2,3 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and …
Genesis 22:18 And in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because …
Psalm 72:17 His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long …
Acts 3:25 You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God …
Galatians 3:8,16 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen …
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken to him; and Lot went with him…
Genesis 17:23 And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, …
Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …
Genesis 22:16,18 And said, By myself have I sworn, said the LORD, for because you …
Psalm 112:1,2 Praise you the LORD. Blessed is the man that fears the LORD, that …
Psalm 128:1-6 Blessed is every one that fears the LORD; that walks in his ways…
Matthew 5:19 Whoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and …
Matthew 7:24 Therefore whoever hears these sayings of mine, and does them, I will …
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always …
Galatians 5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision avails any thing, nor uncircumcision; …
Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which …
James 2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered …
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
Gerar.
Genesis 20:1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and dwelled …
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.
She is my sister.
Genesis 12:13 Say, I pray you, you are my sister: that it may be well with me for …
Genesis 20:2,5,12,13 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister: and Abimelech …
Proverbs 29:25 The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the …
Matthew 10:28 And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul…
Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, …
Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another, seeing that you have put off the old man …
fair.
Genesis 24:16 And the damsel was very fair to look on, a virgin, neither had any …
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.
a window.
Judges 5:28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the …
Proverbs 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Songs 2:9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he stands behind …
sporting.
Proverbs 5:18,19 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth…
Ecclesiastes 9:9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of the life …
Isaiah 62:5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: …
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.
Genesis 12:18,19 And Pharaoh called Abram and said, What is this that you have done …
Genesis 20:9,10 Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done …
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
toucheth.
Genesis 20:6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in …
Psalm 105:15 Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Proverbs 6:29 So he that goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall …
Zechariah 2:8 For thus said the LORD of hosts; After the glory has he sent me to …
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
sowed. The author of the History of the Piratical States of Barbary observes, (p.
received. Heb. found. an hundredfold.
Psalm 67:6 Then shall the earth yield her increase; and God, even our own God, …
Psalm 72:16 There shall be an handful of corn in the earth on the top of the …
Ecclesiastes 11:6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your …
Zechariah 8:12 For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, …
Matthew 13:8,23 But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an …
Mark 4:8 And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up …
1 Corinthians 3:6 I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.
2 Corinthians 9:10,11 Now he that ministers seed to the sower both minister bread for your …
Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows, that …
blessed.
Genesis 26:3,29 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; …
Genesis 24:1,35 And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed …
Genesis 30:30 For it was little which you had before I came, and it is now increased …
Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: …
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.
had possession.
Genesis 12:16 And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, …
Genesis 13:2 And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
Job 1:3 His substance also was seven thousand sheep, and three thousand camels, …
Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: …
Psalm 112:3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endures for ever.
Psalm 144:13,14 That our garners may be full, affording all manner of store: that …
Proverbs 10:22 The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
servants. or, husbandry. envied.
Genesis 37:11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.
1 Samuel 18:9 And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
Job 5:2 For wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the silly one.
Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his …
Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Ecclesiastes 4:4 Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this …
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.
in the days. Houbigant contends, that instead of bimey, 'in the days,' we should read, avdey, 'servants;' agreeably to the Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: 'And Isaac digged again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham his father had digged.'
and he.
Genesis 21:31 Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.
Numbers 32:38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: …
Psalm 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: …
Hosea 2:17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they …
Zechariah 13:2 And it shall come to pass in that day, said the LORD of hosts, that …
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
springing water. Heb. living.
Songs 4:15 A fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.
John 4:10,11 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and …
John 7:38 He that believes on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly …
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.
did strive.
Genesis 21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which …
Esek. i.e., Contention.
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Sitnah. i.e., Hatred.
Ezra 4:6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign…
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.
digged. The wells in Arabia are generally dug in the rock: their mouths are about six feet in diameter, and they are from nineteen to twenty feet in depth. But Niebuhr informs us, that many wells are from
Rehoboth. i.e., Room. the Lord.
Psalm 4:1 Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have enlarged …
Psalm 18:19 He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because …
Psalm 118:5 I called on the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me …
be fruitful.
Genesis 17:6 And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of …
Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, …
Genesis 41:52 And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God has caused …
Exodus 1:7 And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, …
And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
Beer-sheba.
Genesis 21:31 Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.
Genesis 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, …
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was …
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.
builded.
Genesis 8:20 And Noah built an altar to the LORD; and took of every clean beast, …
Genesis 12:7 And the LORD appeared to Abram, and said, To your seed will I give …
Genesis 13:18 Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelled in the plain of …
Genesis 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham …
Genesis 33:20 And he erected there an altar, and called it EleloheIsrael.
Genesis 35:1 And God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and …
Exodus 17:15 And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Jehovahnissi:
called.
Psalm 116:17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call …
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
Abimelech.
Genesis 20:3 But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, …
Genesis 21:22-32 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the …
Phichol. Phichol, as well as Abimelech, 'father king,' seems to have been a name of office or dignity among the Philistines; for it is not probable that they were the same as are mentioned in the days of Abraham (ch.
Genesis 21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the …
Genesis 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and …
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
seeing.
Genesis 26:14,16 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great …
Judges 11:7 And Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, Did not you hate me, and …
Acts 7:9,14,27,35 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but …
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …
sent me.
Genesis 26:16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.
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;
We saw certainly. Heb. Seeing we saw. was with.
Genesis 21:22,23 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the …
Genesis 39:5 And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in …
Joshua 3:7 And the LORD said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you …
2 Chronicles 1:1 And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and …
Isaiah 45:14 Thus said the LORD, The labor of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia …
Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted you shall come bending to you…
Isaiah 61:6,9 But you shall be named the Priests of the LORD: men shall call you …
Romans 8:31 What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
1 Corinthians 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling …
Hebrews 13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with …
Let there.
Genesis 21:31,32 Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them…
Genesis 24:3,41 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the …
Genesis 31:49-53 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and you, when …
Hebrews 6:16 For men truly swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation …
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.
That thou wilt. Heb. If thou shalt, etc. not.
Genesis 26:11,14,15 And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this …
the blessed.
Genesis 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundred …
Genesis 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and …
Genesis 21:22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the …
Genesis 22:17 That in blessing I will bless you, and in multiplying I will multiply …
Genesis 24:31 And he said, Come in, you blessed of the LORD; why stand you without? …
Psalm 115:15 You are blessed of the LORD which made heaven and earth.
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Genesis 19:3 And he pressed on them greatly; and they turned in to him, and entered …
Genesis 21:8 And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast …
Genesis 31:54 Then Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount, and called his brothers …
Romans 12:18 If it be possible, as much as lies in you, live peaceably with all men.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall …
1 Peter 4:9 Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
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.
betimes.
Genesis 19:2 And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your …
Genesis 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle …
Genesis 22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his donkey, …
Genesis 31:55 And early in the morning Laban rose up, and kissed his sons and his …
sware.
Genesis 14:22 And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lift up my hand to the …
Genesis 21:23,31,32 Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely …
Genesis 25:33 And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he swore to him: and he …
Genesis 31:44 Now therefore come you, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let …
1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured …
1 Samuel 20:3,16,17 And David swore moreover, and said, Your father certainly knows that …
1 Samuel 30:15 And David said to him, Can you bring me down to this company? And …
Hebrews 6:16 For men truly swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation …
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.
We have.
Genesis 26:25 And he built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, …
Proverbs 2:4,5 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hid treasures…
Proverbs 10:4 He becomes poor that deals with a slack hand: but the hand of the …
Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing: but the soul of …
Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and you shall find; knock, …
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
Shebah. i.e., an oath. therefore.
Genesis 21:31 Why he called that place Beersheba; because there they swore both of them.
Beer-sheba. i.e., the well of the oath.
Genesis 26:28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we …
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:
A.M.
Genesis 36:2,5,13 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter …
the daughter.
Genesis 24:3 And I will make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven, and the …
Exodus 34:16 And you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters …
1 Corinthians 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, …
Hebrews 12:16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for …
Bashemath.
Genesis 36:2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter …
Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Which.
Genesis 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; …
Genesis 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of the daughters …
Genesis 28:1,2,8 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said …
grief of mind. Heb. bitterness of spirit.
