Jan.
26
Genesis
26
Gen
26:1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the
Philistines, to Gerar.
Gen
26:2 Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into
Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Gen
26:3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless
you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I
will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Gen
26:4 I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will
give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations
of the earth be blessed,
Gen
26:5 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
Gen
26:6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
Gen
26:7 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She
is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife,"
lest, he thought, "the men of the place might kill me for
Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at."
Gen
26:8 It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Gen
26:9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is
your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?' " Isaac said to
him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.' "
Gen
26:10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of
the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have
brought guilt on us!"
Gen
26:11 Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who
touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
Gen
26:12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one
hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
Gen
26:13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became
very great.
Gen
26:14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a
great household. The Philistines envied him.
Gen
26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the
days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled
with earth.
Gen
26:16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much
mightier than we."
Gen
26:17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar,
and lived there.
Gen
26:18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the
days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them
after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by
which his father had called them.
Gen
26:19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
Gen
26:20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying,
"The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek,
because they contended with him.
Gen
26:21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He
called its name Sitnah.
Gen
26:22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue
over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh
has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
Gen
26:23 He went up from there to Beersheba.
Gen
26:24 Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am
the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you,
and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's
sake."
Gen
26:25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and
pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
Gen
26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his
friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Gen
26:27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you
hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
Gen
26:28 They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We
said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you,
and let us make a covenant with you,
Gen
26:29 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and
as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in
peace.' You are now the blessed of Yahweh."
Gen
26:30 He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Gen
26:31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to
another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Gen
26:32 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told
him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We
have found water."
Gen
26:33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is
Beersheba to this day.
Gen
26:34 When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the
daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the
Hittite.
Gen
26:35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.