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Verse Genesis 26:33. _HE CALLED IT SHEBAH_] This was probably the
_same well_ which was called _Beersheba_ in the time of Abraham, which
the Philistines had filled up, and which the servants of Isaac...
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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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SHEBAH. Hebrew an oath.
THEREFORE. Same name given by Abraham (Genesis 21:31). Names were
sometimes reimposed for. new reason. Compare Bethel (Genesis 28:18;
Genesis 28:19 with...
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_Shibah_ This word, denoting "oath-taking" or "swearing," is here
given as the explanation of the name "Beer-sheba." For another
tradition as to the origin of the name, see Genesis 21:31. The
narrativ...
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HE CALLED IT SHEBA, &C.— As the wells which Abraham dug had been
stopped up, most probably the names of them also had been forgotten.
Isaac, therefore, in similar circumstances, and from a similar eve...
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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...
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_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._
Isaac's servants ... said unto him. We...
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26:33 Shebah; (a-5) Oath....
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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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SHEBAH] RV 'Shibah,' i.e. 'Oath,' in allusion to the covenant. See on
Genesis 21:31....
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Abraham had called this well ‘Beer-sheba’. (See Genesis 21:31.)
That means ‘the well of 7’. The number 7 was a sign of an
agreement. (See the comment on Genesis 21:27-30.) Isaac calls it
‘Shibah’, whi...
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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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THEREFORE THE NAME OF THE CITY IS BEER-SHEBA UNTO THIS DAY. — There
was no city at this time at Beer-sheba, but one is mentioned at the
conquest of Canaan by Joshua (Joshua 15:28). This note, as is th...
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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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וַ יִּקְרָ֥א אֹתָ֖הּ שִׁבְעָ֑ה עַל
־כֵּ֤ן שֵׁ
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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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Sheba means an oath, Beer the well; hence Beersheba, the well of the
oath....
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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 HE CALLED IT SHEBA,.... Which, according to Jerom, signifies
"fulness", as if it had its name from the abundance of water in it;
but rather it signifies an "oath", and was so called from the oath,...
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And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is] Beersheba
unto this day.
Ver. 33. _Is Beersheba to this day._] So it was before; but the name
was almost worn out, the well being stopped...
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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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SHEBAH:
That is, an oath
BEERSHEBA:
That is, the well of the oath...
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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....
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This name had been given before, either to this or a neighbouring
place, by Abraham, GENESIS 21:31; but was now buried in oblivion, as
his wells were; and the wells being revived, he revives and renew...
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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 26:33 called H7121 (H8799) Shebah H7656 name H8034 city H5892
Beersheba H884 day H3117
SHEBAH - I.E. AN OATH
therefore -...
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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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Genesis 26:20 , GENESIS 26:33
These four names are the names of four wells of springing water, dug
in a valley, to feed families and flocks. Esek means strife; Sitnah,
hatred; Rehoboth, room; and She...
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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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GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:32 This treaty coincides with the
discovery of WATER in a WELL being dug by ISAAC’S SERVANTS.
Therefore the well is called Sh
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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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Shebah. i.e., an oath. therefore. Genesis 21:31 Beer-sheba. i.e., the
well of the oath. Genesis 26:28...
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Was Beersheba named by Abraham or later by Isaac?
PROBLEM: In Genesis 21:31 Abraham named this city Beersheba (“Well
of the Oath”). But later (in Genesis 26:33), Isaac gave it the same
name. But it is...