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Genesis 26:30

And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. Isaac was fully aware of his power and importance as a wealthy nomad prince, and made use of the situation to his advantage, without letting it appear that he was granting a favor.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 26:30. _HE MADE THEM A FEAST_] Probably on the _sacrifice_ that was offered on the occasion of making this covenant. This was a common custom....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - 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,”...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _a feast_ A "feast" was partaken of by the two parties in a covenant. Cf. Genesis 31:54. Here it is an evening "drinking banquet" cf. Genesis 19:3....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    8. _The Covenant with Abimelech_ (Genesis 26:26-33). As Abimelech was the standing title of the Philistine kings, so Phicol seems to have been the standing title of the captain (or general) of the arm...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN ABIMELECH WENT TO HIM FROM GERAR, AND AHUZZATH ONE OF HIS FRIENDS, AND PHICHOL THE CHIEF CAPTAIN OF HIS ARMY._ Then Abimelech went to him. Since there was a lapse of 70 years between the visit...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    See on Genesis 27:3....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Isaac did not want to be friendly with the *Philistines. But also, he did not intend to fight against them. So he was willing to make an agreement with them. They agreed to live in peace with each oth...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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....

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יַּ֤עַשׂ לָהֶם֙ מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה וַ יֹּאכְל֖וּ ו

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE MADE THEM A FEAST,.... Made a feast like a king, for the king and his grandees; he treated them in a generous way, according to their dignity, and agreeable to his own disposition and substance...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. Ver. 30. _And he made them a feast._] Not to mischief them thereat, as Absalom did Amnon, as Alexander did Philotas, as the great Turk doth the n...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    26-33 When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him, Proverbs 16:7. Kings' hearts are in his hands, and when he pleases, he can turn them to favour his people....

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 26:30 made H6213 (H8799) feast H4960 ate H398 (H8799) drank H8354 (H8799)...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:26 Abimelech comes to Isaac to establish a COVENANT (v. Genesis 26:28) or treaty with him, guaranteeing they will live together peacef

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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.

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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-...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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)....

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 19:3 Genesis 21:8 Genesis 31:54 Romans 12:18 Hebrews 12:14...

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