Joseph Benson’s Bible Commentary
Genesis 26:24
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.
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.
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...
- 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,”...
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...
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;...
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4....
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...
_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...
_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....
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...
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...
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....
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...
(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...
וַ יֵּרָ֨א אֵלָ֤יו יְהוָה֙ בַּ † לַּ֣יְלָה...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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)_...
Gen_12:2; Gen_15:1-8; Gen_17:6-7....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
The Enmity of the Philistines...
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...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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...
Genesis 26:24 LORD H3068 appeared H7200 (H8735) night H3915 said H559 (H8799) God H430 father H1 Abraham...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
_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...
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.
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
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...
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-...
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)....
I am the. Genesis 15:1 Genesis 17:7 Genesis 24:12 Genesis 28:13 Genesis 31:
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....