ISAAC (GENESIS 25:19 TO GENESIS 27:46). After the heart warming record of the obtaining of a suitable wife for Isaac as a result of the direct activity of Yahweh little is told us about him. This is because during his lifetime important covenants and theophanies were few and therefore there was no... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAAC AND ABIMELECH (GENESIS 26:1). As we have been informed earlier, after the death of Abraham Isaac moved to Beer-lahai-roi (Genesis 25:11). When therefore famine arose in the land of Canaan he must have experienced great temptation to slip, with his tribe and cattle, across the nearby border in... [ Continue Reading ]
‘And Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of. 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. A... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIRST THEOPHANY - PROMISE OF BLESSING AND PROSPERITY TO HIM AND TO THE WORLD (GENESIS 26:2).... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAAC AND ABIMELECH - A STORY OF WELLS (GENESIS 26:12). Genesis 26:12 ‘And Isaac sowed in that land and found in that same year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. And the man became great (in riches) and grew more and more until he was very wealthy. And he had possessions of flocks, and posse... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BLESSING OF ESAU AND JACOB (GENESIS 26:34 TO GENESIS 27:45). This passage was recorded in writing because it records the blessings given to Jacob and Esau which were in the nature of a binding covenant that could not be changed. They thus testified to the will of Isaac as declared in those bles... [ Continue Reading ]