| 26:1 |
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. |
| 26:2 |
And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down
into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: |
| 26:3 |
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; |
| 26:4 |
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; |
| 26:5 |
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my
charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. |
| 26:6 |
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: |
| 26:7 |
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. |
| 26:8 |
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. |
| 26:9 |
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. |
| 26:10 |
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. |
| 26:11 |
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that
toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to
death. |
| 26:12 |
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the
same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. |
| 26:13 |
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew
until he became very great: |
| 26:14 |
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of
herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines
envied him. |
| 26:15 |
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. |
| 26:16 |
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou
art much mightier than we. |
| 26:17 |
And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in
the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. |
| 26:18 |
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. |
| 26:19 |
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found
there a well of springing water. |
| 26:20 |
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. |
| 26:21 |
And they digged another well, and strove for that
also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. |
| 26:22 |
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. |
| 26:23 |
And he went up from thence to Beersheba. |
| 26:24 |
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. |
| 26:25 |
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. |
| 26:26 |
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath
one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his
army. |
| 26:27 |
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,
seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? |
| 26:28 |
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; |
| 26:29 |
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. |
| 26:30 |
And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. |
| 26:31 |
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. |
| 26:32 |
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. |
| 26:33 |
And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the
city is Beersheba unto this day. |
| 26:34 |
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: |
| 26:35 |
Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. |