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Verse Genesis 26:24. _THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM_] He needed especial
encouragement when insulted and outraged by the Philistines; for
having returned to the place where his noble father had lately d...
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- The Events of Isaac’s Life
5. משׁמרת _mı̂shmeret_, “charge, ordinance.” מציה
_mı̂tsvâh_, “command,” special order. חק _choq_, “decree,
statute,” engraven on stone or metal. תירה _tôrâh_,
“law,”...
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CHAPTER 26 ISAAC IN GERAR
_ 1. The famine (Genesis 26:1)_
2. Jehovah appears unto Isaac (Genesis 26:2)
3. Isaac in Gerar where he denies Rebekah (Genesis 26:6)
4. Isaac's prosperity and the diggin...
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GENESIS 26. ISAAC AND THE PHILISTINES. Apart from Genesis 26:34 f.
this chapter belongs to J. The original has been expanded in Genesis
26:1, and Genesis 26:15;...
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GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
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AND THE LORD APPEARED, &C.— It is pleasing to observe the propriety
and goodness of this gracious appearance of the Lord to Isaac, when he
returned to Beer-sheba, where his father had dwelt, after the...
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_7. The Theophany at Beersbeba_ (Genesis 26:23-25). We now read that
Isaac went up from Gerar to Beersheba. (Though Beersheba is said to
lie lower than Gerar, yet the general expression for approachin...
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_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....
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ISAAC AT GERAR
Many of the notes on Genesis 20, 21 are applicable to this chapter It
is thought probable that the present narrative is in the main a
repetition from another source of events already r...
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God repeated the promises that he had already given to Isaac. (See
verses 3-4 and the comment.)
ISAAC’S AGREEMENT WITH ABIMELECH
V26 Then Abimelech went from Gerar to visit Isaac. He took with him...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 26
ISAAC AMONG THE *PHILISTINES
V1 Now there was a *famine in the country. It was like the previous
*famine when Abraham did not have enough food....
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THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave
probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...
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(23-25) HE WENT UP FROM THENCE TO BEER-SHEBA. — This was a very
serious act on Isaac’s part He leaves the solitudes where he had
found a refuge from the enmity of the Philistines, and returns to a
pla...
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וַ יֵּרָ֨א אֵלָ֤יו יְהוָה֙ בַּ †
לַּ֣יְלָה...
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ISAAC'S WELLS AND COVENANT
Genesis 26:18
It is interesting to follow Isaac in his well-digging. Let us also dig
wells and set streams flowing, which will bless men long after we have
gone home to hea...
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We have here the account of the first direct divine communication of
Jehovah to Isaac. It came in a time of difficulty such as that which
had caused his father to go down into Egypt. Warned against re...
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ISAAC AND ABIMELECH
Like his father before him, Isaac went to Gerar in a time of famine.
God instructed him not to go down into Egypt and repeated the promise
of the blessing. He lied about Rebekah by...
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And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I [am] the
God (i) of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I [am] with thee, and
will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's s...
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_Of Abraham, who still lives before me, and for whom I always
testified such affection, though I suffered him to be persecuted:
hence, fear not. (Haydock)_...
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Gen_12:2; Gen_15:1-8; Gen_17:6-7....
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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24._And the Lord appeared unto him_. This vision (as I have elsewhere
said) was to prepare him to listen more attentively to God, and to
convince him that it was God with whom he had to deal; for a vo...
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Here (chap. 26) Isaac replaces Abraham as heir upon the earth. It is a
new revelation, when Isaac is himself in a strange land, like the one
made to Abraham at the first; only that Isaac was already i...
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AND THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM IN THE SAME NIGHT,.... The first night he
came to Beersheba, in a dream or vision, in which the Lord was
represented as speaking to him:
AND SAID, I [AM] THE GOD OF ABRAH...
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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....
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_Fear not, I am with thee, and will bless thee_ Those may remove with
comfort that are sure of God's presence with them wherever they go....
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1 Isaac because of famine went to Gerar.
2 God instructeth, and blesseth him.
7 Hee is reproued by Abimelech for denying his wife.
12 He groweth rich.
18 He diggeth Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth.
23...
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The Enmity of the Philistines...
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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. In...
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FOURTH SECTION
_Isaac in Beer-sheba. Treaty of Peace with Abimelech_
GENESIS 26:23-33
23And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. 24And the Lord appeared
unto him the same [first] night, and said, I...
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ISAAC IN GERAR
A famine occurs in the land, just as it had in the days of Abraham
(ch.12:10). In that case Abraham went down to Egypt, whereas Isaac
went only as far as Gerar, in the land of the Phili...
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18-25 Isaac met with much opposition in digging wells. Two were
called Contention and Hatred. See the nature of worldly things; they
make quarrels, and are occasions of strife; and what is often the...
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The opening verse of this chapter connects itself with Genesis
12:1-20. "There was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham." The trials which meet God's people, i...
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Genesis 26:24 LORD H3068 appeared H7200 (H8735) night H3915 said H559
(H8799) God H430 father H1 Abraham...
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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
ri...
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CONTENTS: Covenant confirmed to Isaac. Isaac's lapse at Gerar, Isaac
as a well digger.
CHARACTERS: Isaac, Rebekah, Abimelech, Ahuzzath, Phichol, Esau,
Judith.
CONCLUSION: It is peculiarly comforting...
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Genesis 26:1. _Abimelech_ was a name common to the kings of Gerar, and
the _Philistines_ were of African descent. Genesis 10:14.
Genesis 26:2. _The Lord appeared unto him._ The infancy of the
patriarc...
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_Fear not, for I am with thee_
LESSONS
1.
The return from exilement to their own, God giveth to His sojourners
as He pleaseth.
2. Beer-sheba is is more desirable to Isaac than Gerar. The place by...
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_Isaac digged again the wells of water_
ISAAC’S WELLS
These four names are the names (Genesis 26:20; Genesis 26:33) of four
wells of springing water, dug in a valley, to feed families and
flocks.
“E...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:1 The events in this chapter are
difficult to date precisely but they probably took place after the
death of Abraham (Genesis 25:8), when Esau and Jacob were young men.
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:23 ISAAC’S SERVANTS DUG A WELL. Years
earlier Abraham dug a well at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:30), but the
Philistines later filled it
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 26:13. Went forward.] Heb. “Went or walked, going;”
_i.e.,_ “Became increasingly greater.” The Heb. term for walk is
frequently used in the sense of continued increase.
GENE...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 26:23
AND HE (viz; Isaac) WENT UP FROM THENCE (Rehoboth, where latterly he
had been encamped) TO BEER-SHEBA—a former residence of Abraham
(Genesis 21:33), situated "near the water-...
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Now there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was
in the days of Abraham. [And like father, like son,] Isaac went to
Abimelech the king of the Philistines unto Gerar (Genesis 26:1)....
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I am the. Genesis 15:1 Genesis 17:7 Genesis 24:12 Genesis 28:13
Genesis 31:
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Fear not, I am with thee, and will bless thee — Those may remove
with comfort that are sure of God's presence with them wherever they
go....