Genesis 26:33

_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._ Isaac's servants ... said unto him. We have found water. And he called it Shebah, [Hebrew, _ SHIB`AAH_ (H7651), Shibeah] - indicating that the compact between Abimelech and Isaac was ratified by the solemn obligation of a mutual oath, as formerly in Abraham's time (Genesis 26:31: see the note at Genesis 21:32). This was not the restoration of an old, but the sinking of a new well; and hence, by the formal ceremony of inauguration gone through with Abimelech, Isaac established his right of possession to the adjoining district. 'Upon the northern side of Wady es-Seba, a wide wa

26-33 When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him, Proverbs 16:7. Kings' hearts are in his hands, and when he pleases, he can turn them to favour his people. It is not wrong to stand upon our guard in dealing with those who have acted unfairly. But Isaac did not insist on the unkindnesses they had done him; he freely entered into friendship with them. Religion teaches us to be neighbourly, and, as much as in us lies, to live peaceable with all men. Providence smiled upon what Isaac did; God blessed his labours....

Verse Genesis 26:33. _HE CALLED IT SHEBAH_] This was probably the _same well_ which was called _Beersheba_ in the time of Abraham, which the Philistines had filled up, and which the servants of Isaac had reopened. The same name is therefore given to it which it had before, with the addition of the _emphatic_ letter ה _he_, by which its signification became _extended_, so that now it signified not merely an _oath_ or _full_, but _satisfaction_ and _abundance_. _THE NAME OF THE CITY_ IS _BEER-SHEBA_] This name was given to it a hundred years before this time; but as the _well_ from which it had this name originally was closed up by the Philistines, probably the name of the place was _abolished_ with the well; when therefore Isaac reopened the well, he restored the ancient name of the

- 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,” doctrine, system of moral truth. 10. עשׂק _‛__êśeq_, ‘Eseq, “strife.” 21. שׂטנה _śı̂ṭnâh_, Sitnah, “opposition.” 22. רחבית _r__e__chobôt_, Rechoboth, “room.” 26. אחזת...

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-shed between the Mediterranean and the Salt Sea" (Murphy), hence approached from the low-lying wady by an ascent. GENESIS 26:24 AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM THE SAME NIGHT (_i_._e_. the night of his arrival at Beersheba), AND SAID (in a dream or vision), I (the pronoun is emphatic) AM THE GOD (the Elohim) of Abraham t

AND HE CALLED IT SHEBA,.... Which, according to Jerom, signifies "fulness", as if it had its name from the abundance of water in it; but rather it signifies an "oath", and was so called from the oath, which he and Abimelech had just took to one another; and these circumstances meeting together, the taking of the oath, and the account of the well, THEREFORE THE NAME OF THE CITY IS BEERSHEBA UNTO THIS DAY; that is, the well of the oath: it had been so called by Abraham an hundred years ago or more; but now upon this occasion it was renewed and confirmed, and so continued until the times of Moses, and many ages after....

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 digging of wells (Genesis 26:12) 5. Jehovah appears at Beersheba (Genesis 26:23) 6. Isaac and Abimelech (Genesis 26:26) 7. The wives of Esau ...

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; Genesis 26:18 are harmonistic insertions. Apart from Genesis 26:12 the incidents are parallel to incidents recorded of Abraham. On the relation to the earlier adventures of Sarah in Egypt and Gerar, see Genesis 26:20 *. The incident is misplaced; obviously it is earlier than the birth of Esau and Jacob.

SHEBAH. Hebrew an oath. THEREFORE. Same name given by Abraham (Genesis 21:31). Names were sometimes reimposed for. new reason. Compare Bethel (Genesis 28:18; Genesis 28:19 with Genesis 35:6; Genesis 35:7) and Israel (Genesis 32:28 with Genesis 35:10)....

_Shibah_ This word, denoting "oath-taking" or "swearing," is here given as the explanation of the name "Beer-sheba." For another tradition as to the origin of the name, see Genesis 21:31. The narrative there is from E; the narrative here from J. _Shebûah_, of which _shib-ah_is a rare variety, is an "oath"; _sheba-_is "seven." Aquila and Symmachus πλησμονή; Lat. _abundantiam_; reading _sib-ah_. _unto this day_ See note on Genesis 22:14....