<!--more--><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000000">Old Testament</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000001">Genesis</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1000720">Chapter 26</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1000685">&laquo; Previous Chapter</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1000756">Next Chapter &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>The Patriarchs</em></p><p><em>Isaac</em></p><ul class="scripturelog_verse_list"><li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000721">1</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000722">2</a>. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000723">3</a>. 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;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000724">4</a>. 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;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000725">5</a>. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000726">6</a>. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000727">7</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000728">8</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000729">9</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000730">10</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000731">11</a>. And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000732">12</a>. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000733">13</a>. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000734">14</a>. For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000735">15</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000736">16</a>. And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000737">17</a>. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000738">18</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000739">19</a>. And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000740">20</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000741">21</a>. And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000742">22</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000743">23</a>. And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000744">24</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000745">25</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000746">26</a>. Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000747">27</a>. And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000748">28</a>. 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;</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000749">29</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000750">30</a>. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000751">31</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000752">32</a>. 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.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000753">33</a>. And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000754">34</a>. 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:</li>
<li class="scripturelog_verse_list_item"><a href="?page_id=1000755">35</a>. Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.</li>
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