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Verse Genesis 26:25. _BUILDED AN ALTAR THERE_] That he might have a
_place_ for God's worship, as well as a _place_ for himself and family
to dwell in.
_AND CALLED UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD_] And in...
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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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_builded … there_ As Abraham had done, Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:18.
_called … Lord_ See notes on Genesis 4:26; Genesis 21:33.
digg
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_7. The Theophany at Beersbeba_ (Genesis 26:23-25). We now read that
Isaac went up from Gerar to Beersheba. (Though Beersheba is said to
lie lower than Gerar, yet the general expression for approachin...
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_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....
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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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(23-25) HE WENT UP FROM THENCE TO BEER-SHEBA. — This was a very
serious act on Isaac’s part He leaves the solitudes where he had
found a refuge from the enmity of the Philistines, and returns to a
pla...
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וַ יִּ֧בֶן שָׁ֣ם מִזְבֵּ֗חַ וַ
יִּקְרָא֙ בְּ
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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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And he builded an (x) altar there, and called upon the name of the
LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a
well.
(x) To signify that he would serve no other God, but the...
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See how faithful men in all places, desire to erect, and leave behind
them their testimonies to God's faithfulness. Genesis 12:7; Genesis
13:18 etc....
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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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25._And he builded an altar there_. From other passages we are well
aware that Moses here speaks of public worship; for inward invocation
of God neither requires an altar; nor has any special choice o...
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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 HE BUILDED AN ALTAR THERE,.... At Beersheba, where his father
Abraham had planted a grove before, and very probably had built an
altar also, though it might not be now standing, Genesis 21:33;
AN...
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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.
Ver. 25. _And called upon the name of the Lord._] That had m...
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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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FOURTH SECTION
_Isaac in Beer-sheba. Treaty of Peace with Abimelech_
GENESIS 26:23-33
23And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. 24And the Lord appeared
unto him the same [first] night, and said, I...
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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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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 26:25 built H1129 (H8799) altar H4196 called H7121 (H8799)
name H8034 LORD H3068 pitched H5186 ...
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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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_Fear not, for I am with thee_
LESSONS
1.
The return from exilement to their own, God giveth to His sojourners
as He pleaseth.
2. Beer-sheba is is more desirable to Isaac than Gerar. The place by...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:23 ISAAC’S SERVANTS DUG A WELL. Years
earlier Abraham dug a well at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:30), but the
Philistines later filled it
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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 26:23
AND HE (viz; Isaac) WENT UP FROM THENCE (Rehoboth, where latterly he
had been encamped) TO BEER-SHEBA—a former residence of Abraham
(Genesis 21:33), situated "near the water-...
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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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builded. Genesis 8:20 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 13:18 Genesis 22:9 Genesis
33:20