Genesis 26
God’s Promise to Isaac
1Now there was a famine in the land, besides athe former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to bAbimelech king of the cPhilistines. 2And the Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell din the land of which I shall tell you. 3 eSojourn in this land, and fI will be with you and will bless you, for gto you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish hthe oath that I swore to Abraham your father. 4 iI will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And jin your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, 5because kAbraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”Isaac and Abimelech
6So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7When the men of the place asked him about his wife, lhe said, “She is my sister,” for mhe feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because nshe was attractive in appearance. 8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with ▼▼Hebrew may suggest an intimate relationship
Rebekah his wife. 9So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” 10Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and pyou would have brought guilt upon us.” 11So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.” 12And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord qblessed him, 13and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. 14He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines renvied him. 15(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells sthat his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) 16And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.” 17So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. 18And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And the gave them the names that his father had given them. 19But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, 20the herdsmen of Gerar uquarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, ▼▼ Esek means contention
because they contended with him. 21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah. ▼▼ Sitnah means enmity
22And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, ▼▼ Rehoboth means broad places, or room
saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.” 23From there he went up to Beersheba. 24And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, y“I am the God of Abraham your father. zFear not, for aaI am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.” 25So he abbuilt an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well. 26When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and acPhicol the commander of his army, 27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and adhave sent me away from you?” 28They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, 29that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. aeYou are now the blessed of the Lord.” 30So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31In the morning they rose early and afexchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. 32That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.” 33He called it Shibah; ▼▼ Shibah sounds like the Hebrew for oath
therefore the name of the city is ahBeersheba to this day. 34When Esau was forty years old, he took aiJudith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, 35and ajthey made life bitter ▼▼Hebrew they were bitterness of spirit
for Isaac and Rebekah.
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