Thematic Bible
Genesis 26:1 (show verse)
There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.
Genesis 26:2 (show verse)
The LORD appeared to him, and said, "Do not go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.
Genesis 26:3 (show verse)
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For to you, and to your seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.
Genesis 26:4 (show verse)
I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and will give to your seed all these lands. In your seed will all the nations of the earth be blessed,
Genesis 26:5 (show verse)
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
Genesis 26:6 (show verse)
Isaac lived in Gerar.
Genesis 26:7 (show verse)
The 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."
Genesis 26:8 (show verse)
It happened, 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 caressing Rebekah, his wife.
Genesis 26:9 (show verse)
Abimelech 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.'"
Genesis 26:10 (show verse)
Abimelech 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."
Genesis 26:11 (show verse)
Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
Genesis 26:12 (show verse)
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.
Genesis 26:13 (show verse)
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
Genesis 26:14 (show verse)
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26:15 (show verse)
Now 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.
Genesis 26:16 (show verse)
Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
Genesis 26:17 (show verse)
Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Genesis 26:18 (show verse)
Isaac 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.
Genesis 26:19 (show verse)
Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
Genesis 26:20 (show verse)
The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Genesis 26:21 (show verse)
They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.
Genesis 26:22 (show verse)
He left that place, and dug another well. They did not argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
Genesis 26:23 (show verse)
He went up from there to Beersheba.
Genesis 26:24 (show verse)
The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
Genesis 26:25 (show verse)
He built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.
Genesis 26:26 (show verse)
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Genesis 26:27 (show verse)
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
Genesis 26:28 (show verse)
They said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
Genesis 26:29 (show verse)
that 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 the LORD."
Genesis 26:30 (show verse)
He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
Genesis 26:31 (show verse)
They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
Genesis 26:32 (show verse)
It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
Genesis 26:33 (show verse)
He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
Genesis 26:34 (show verse)
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Genesis 26:35 (show verse)
They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.