Genesis 26

1There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.Cross-references: Gen 12:10 · Gen 20:1 · Gen 21:22 · Gen 25:11

2Yahweh appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 17:1 · Gen 18:1 · Gen 18:10 · Ps 37:3

3Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.Cross-references: Gen 12:1 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:15 · Gen 13:17 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:8 · +18 more

4I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:5 · Gen 15:18 · Gen 17:4 · Gen 18:18 · +7 more

5because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”Cross-references: Gen 12:4 · Gen 17:23 · Gen 18:19 · Gen 22:16 · Gen 22:18 · Ps 112:1 · +7 more

6Isaac lived in Gerar.Cross-references: Gen 20:1

7The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”Cross-references: Gen 12:13 · Gen 20:2 · Gen 20:5 · Gen 20:12 · Gen 24:16 · Prov 29:25 · +3 more

8When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.Cross-references: Judg 5:28 · Prov 5:18 · Prov 7:6 · Eccl 9:9 · Song 2:9 · Isa 62:5

9Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

10Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”Cross-references: Gen 12:18 · Gen 20:9

11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”Cross-references: Gen 20:6 · Ps 105:15 · Prov 6:29 · Zech 2:8

12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.Cross-references: Gen 24:1 · Gen 24:35 · Gen 26:3 · Gen 26:29 · Gen 30:30 · Job 42:12 · +10 more

13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.Cross-references: Gen 24:35 · Ps 112:3 · Prov 10:22

14He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.Cross-references: Gen 12:16 · Gen 13:2 · Gen 37:11 · 1Sam 18:9 · Job 1:3 · Job 5:2 · +7 more

15Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.Cross-references: Gen 21:25 · Gen 21:30

16Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”Cross-references: Ex 1:9

17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

18Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.Cross-references: Gen 21:31 · Num 32:38 · Ps 16:4 · Hos 2:17 · Zech 13:2

19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water.Cross-references: Song 4:15 · John 4:10 · John 7:38

20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.Cross-references: Gen 21:25

21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.Cross-references: Ezra 4:6

22He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”Cross-references: Gen 17:6 · Gen 28:3 · Gen 41:52 · Ex 1:7 · Ps 4:1 · Ps 18:19 · +1 more

23He went up from there to Beersheba.Cross-references: Gen 21:31 · Gen 46:1 · Judg 20:1

24Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”Cross-references: Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:1 · Gen 17:7 · Gen 22:19 · Gen 24:12 · Gen 26:2 · +17 more

25He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.Cross-references: Gen 8:20 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 13:4 · Gen 13:18 · Gen 22:9 · Gen 33:20 · +3 more

26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.Cross-references: Gen 20:3 · Gen 21:22

27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”Cross-references: Gen 26:14 · Gen 26:16 · Judg 11:7 · Acts 7:9 · Acts 7:14 · Acts 7:27 · +2 more

28They said, “We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you,Cross-references: Gen 21:22 · Gen 21:31 · Gen 24:3 · Gen 24:41 · Gen 31:49 · Gen 39:5 · +10 more

29that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 21:22 · Gen 22:17 · Gen 24:31 · Gen 26:11 · Gen 26:14 · +1 more

30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.Cross-references: Gen 19:3 · Gen 21:8 · Gen 31:54 · Rom 12:18 · Heb 12:14 · 1Pet 4:9

31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.Cross-references: Gen 14:22 · Gen 19:2 · Gen 21:14 · Gen 21:23 · Gen 21:31 · Gen 22:3 · +8 more

32The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”Cross-references: Gen 26:25 · Prov 2:4 · Prov 10:4 · Prov 13:4 · Matt 7:7

33He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.Cross-references: Gen 21:31 · Gen 26:28

34When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.Cross-references: Gen 24:3 · Gen 28:9 · Gen 36:2 · Gen 36:5 · Gen 36:13 · Ex 34:16 · +2 more

35They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits.Cross-references: Gen 6:2 · Gen 27:46 · Gen 28:8