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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