GE-26:1 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.
GE-26:2 And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down
into Egypt;
dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
GE-26:3 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;
GE-26:4 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;
GE-26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my
charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
GE-26:6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
GE-26:7 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.
GE-26:8 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.
GE-26:9 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.
GE-26:10 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.
GE-26:11 And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He
that toucheth
this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
GE-26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the
same year an
hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
GE-26:13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew
until he became
very great:
GE-26:14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of
herds, and great
store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
GE-26:15 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.
GE-26:16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou
art much
mightier than we.
GE-26:17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the
valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
GE-26:18 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.
GE-26:19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found
there a well of
springing water.
GE-26:20 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.
GE-26:21 And they digged another well, and strove for that also:
and he
called the name of it Sitnah.
GE-26:22 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.
GE-26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
GE-26:24 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.
GE-26:25 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.
GE-26:26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath
one of his
friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
GE-26:27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me,
seeing ye hate
me, and have sent me away from you?
GE-26:28 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;
GE-26:29 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.
GE-26:30 And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
GE-26:31 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.
GE-26:32 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.
GE-26:33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the
city [is]
Beersheba unto this day.
GE-26:34 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:
GE-26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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