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Verse Genesis 26:19. _A WELL OF SPRINGING WATER._] באר מים
חיים _beer mayim_ _chaiyim, A well of living waters_. This is the
oriental phrase for a _spring_, and this is its meaning both in the
Old an...
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- The Events of Isaac’s Life
5. משׁמרת _mı̂shmeret_, “charge, ordinance.” מציה
_mı̂tsvâh_, “command,” special order. חק _choq_, “decree,
statute,” engraven on stone or metal. תירה _tôrâh_,
“law,”...
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CHAPTER 26 ISAAC IN GERAR
_ 1. The famine (Genesis 26:1)_
2. Jehovah appears unto Isaac (Genesis 26:2)
3. Isaac in Gerar where he denies Rebekah (Genesis 26:6)
4. Isaac's prosperity and the diggin...
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GENESIS 26. ISAAC AND THE PHILISTINES. Apart from Genesis 26:34 f.
this chapter belongs to J. The original has been expanded in Genesis
26:1, and Genesis 26:15;...
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WELL. Hebrew. _'ayin._ See note on Genesis 21:19.
SPRINGING. Hebrew living. See note on Genesis 21:19....
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_springing_ Heb. _living_. A well (_be"êr_) might contain either the
water that came from a spring, as here; or water that was stored from
rainfall. The word rendered "springing" appears as "running...
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SPRINGING WATER— In the Hebrew, _living,_ an expression for _spring_
or _fountain_ water, when applied to water in the Old or New
Testament; which is opposed to the cisterns of rain-water, often used...
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6. _The Contention over Wells_ (Genesis 26:18-22). The whole of the
southern frontier of Palestine, called the Negeb or -south country,-'
consisting of vast undulating plains, which extend between the...
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26:19 springing (d-14) Lit.'living.'...
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ISAAC AT GERAR
Many of the notes on Genesis 20, 21 are applicable to this chapter It
is thought probable that the present narrative is in the main a
repetition from another source of events already r...
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GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE
GENESIS
_ALUN OWEN_
CHAPTER 26
ISAAC AMONG THE *PHILISTINES
V1 Now there was a *famine in the country. It was like the previous
*famine when Abraham did not have enough food....
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THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29).
THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS.
Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave
probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...
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(18-22) ISAAC DIGGED AGAIN THE WELLS... — This activity of Isaac
called forth anew the opposition of the Philistines, His first well
was in the wady of Gerar, and was the more valuable because it was...
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וַ יַּחְפְּר֥וּ עַבְדֵֽי ־יִצְחָ֖ק
בַּ † נָּ֑חַל...
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ISAAC'S WELLS AND COVENANT
Genesis 26:18
It is interesting to follow Isaac in his well-digging. Let us also dig
wells and set streams flowing, which will bless men long after we have
gone home to hea...
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We have here the account of the first direct divine communication of
Jehovah to Isaac. It came in a time of difficulty such as that which
had caused his father to go down into Egypt. Warned against re...
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ISAAC AND ABIMELECH
Like his father before him, Isaac went to Gerar in a time of famine.
God instructed him not to go down into Egypt and repeated the promise
of the blessing. He lied about Rebekah by...
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_Torrent. That is, a channel where sometimes a torrent, or violent
stream had run. (Challoner) --- In this vale of Gerara, a
never-failing spring was found. (Haydock)_...
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Living Waters Song of Solomon 4:15...
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Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the
remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the
Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
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Here (chap. 26) Isaac replaces Abraham as heir upon the earth. It is a
new revelation, when Isaac is himself in a strange land, like the one
made to Abraham at the first; only that Isaac was already i...
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AND ISAAC'S SERVANTS DIGGED IN THE VALLEY,.... In the valley of Gerar,
as the Septuagint version expresses it:
AND FOUND THERE A WELL OF SPRINGING WATER; or "living water" l, which
continually flows,...
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And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
Ver. 19. _A well of springing water._] Heb., Living; so called for
their continual motion. Life consisteth in act...
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1 Isaac because of famine went to Gerar.
2 God instructeth, and blesseth him.
7 Hee is reproued by Abimelech for denying his wife.
12 He groweth rich.
18 He diggeth Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth.
23...
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And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water, one which was filled with water from a living spring,
not a mere cistern for rain water, as most of the wells were...
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The Enmity of the Philistines...
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THIRD SECTION
_Isaac in the region of Abimelech at Gerar. The manifestation of God,
and confirmed promise. His imitation of the maxim of his father. The
exposure of Rebekah. The living figure of a ri...
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ISAAC IN GERAR
A famine occurs in the land, just as it had in the days of Abraham
(ch.12:10). In that case Abraham went down to Egypt, whereas Isaac
went only as far as Gerar, in the land of the Phili...
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SPRINGING:
_ Heb._ living...
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18-25 Isaac met with much opposition in digging wells. Two were
called Contention and Hatred. See the nature of worldly things; they
make quarrels, and are occasions of strife; and what is often the...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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The opening verse of this chapter connects itself with Genesis
12:1-20. "There was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that
was in the days of Abraham." The trials which meet God's people, i...
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Genesis 26:19 Isaacs H3327 servants H5650 dug H2658 (H8799) valley
H5158 found H4672 (H8799) well H875 running...
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ISAAC AND ABIMELECH - A STORY OF WELLS (GENESIS 26:12).
Genesis 26:12
‘And Isaac sowed in that land and found in that same year a
hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. And the man became great (in
ri...
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CONTENTS: Covenant confirmed to Isaac. Isaac's lapse at Gerar, Isaac
as a well digger.
CHARACTERS: Isaac, Rebekah, Abimelech, Ahuzzath, Phichol, Esau,
Judith.
CONCLUSION: It is peculiarly comforting...
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Genesis 26:1. _Abimelech_ was a name common to the kings of Gerar, and
the _Philistines_ were of African descent. Genesis 10:14.
Genesis 26:2. _The Lord appeared unto him._ The infancy of the
patriarc...
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_Isaac digged again the wells of water_
ISAAC’S WELLS
These four names are the names (Genesis 26:20; Genesis 26:33) of four
wells of springing water, dug in a valley, to feed families and
flocks.
“E...
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DIGGING WELLS
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing (RVm ‘living') water. Genesis 26:19.
The boys and girls of this country hardly know the real value of a
w...
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:19 Since WATER was vital in this arid
region, disputes over the ownership of wells were common (see Genesis
21:25). The names of the w
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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:1 The events in this chapter are
difficult to date precisely but they probably took place after the
death of Abraham (Genesis 25:8), when Esau and Jacob were young men.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Genesis 26:13. Went forward.] Heb. “Went or walked, going;”
_i.e.,_ “Became increasingly greater.” The Heb. term for walk is
frequently used in the sense of continued increase.
GENE...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 26:12
THEN ISAAC SOWED IN THAT LAND,—viz; Philistia. Though a distinct
advance on the purely nomadic life pursued by Abraham, this did not
imply fixed property in, or even permanen...
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Now there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was
in the days of Abraham. [And like father, like son,] Isaac went to
Abimelech the king of the Philistines unto Gerar (Genesis 26:1)....
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springing water. Heb. living. Song of Solomon 4:15 John 4:10 John 4:11
John 7:38...