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