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Genesis 26:8

at a window The account suggests that Isaac and Rebekah were in the courtyard overlooked by the king's residence. Cf. 2 Samuel 11:2.

sporting See Genesis 21:9 marg., "playing." The word in the original is the same as that from which the name "Isaac" was popularly derived; cf. Genesis 17:17; Genesis 17:19; Genesis 21:6. Here the meaning seems to be that of "fondling," the caress of husband and wife, rather than of brother and sister. LXX παίζοντα, Lat. jocantem.

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See also Genesis 26:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 26:8. _ISAAC_ WAS _SPORTING WITH REBEKAH HIS WIFE._] Whatever may be the precise meaning of the word, it evidently implies that there were liberties taken and freedom used on the occasio...

  • 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;...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPORTING WITH, or caressing...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. _The Threat to Rebekah's Honor_ (Genesis 26:6-11). Because Gerar was situated in the Judean foothills south of Gaza and likely controlled the inland caravan route to Egypt, no doubt it was a commer...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND ISAAC DWELT IN GERAR:_ Isaac dwelt in Gerar; and the men of the place asked him of his wife. During his sojourn in the Philistine capital, Isaac, apprehensive of personal danger on account of Re...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:8 time, (h-12) Lit. 'when the days there were prolonged to him.'...

  • 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

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ABIMELECH. — Upon this title of the Philistine monarchs see Note on Genesis 21:22. As eighty years had elapsed since Abraham’s sojourn in Gerar, it is highly improbable that the same king was still re...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֗י כִּ֣י אָֽרְכוּ ־לֹ֥ו שָׁם֙ הַ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ISAAC IS BLESSED AND GROWS RICH Genesis 26:1 There was no harm in Isaac's going to Gerar, as he had a distinct command to that effect, Genesis 26:2. But he does not seem to have been strong enough to...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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] (e) sporting with Rebekah his wife. (e) Or sh...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _His wife; using greater familiarity that a grave and virtuous man, like Isaac, would offer to do with his sister, or with another person's wife. --- Sin, or punishment, (Menochius) such as Abimelech'...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out at a window_. Truly admirable is the kind forbearance of God, in not only condescending to pardon the twofold fault of his servant, but in stretching...

  • 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 IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN HE HAD BEEN THERE A LONG TIME,.... Perhaps some years: for though it is in the original, "when days were prolonged to him there" b; yet days are sometimes put for years: THA...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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._ Ver. 8. _Sp...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    This Abimelech was not the same that was in Abraham's days, (chapter 20.,) for this was near a hundred years after; but that was the common name of the Philistine kings, as Cesar of the Roman emperors...

  • 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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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. By chance Abi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    REBEKAH'S DANGER...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    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...

  • 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

    6-11 There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his father, and that in two instances. This rendered h...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Using more free and familiar carriage than became a brother and sister, but such as was allowable between husband and wife. See DEUTERONOMY 24:5 PROVERBS 5:18,19. But that this was not the conjugal ac...

  • 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 26:8 long H748 (H8804) time H3117 Abimelech H40 king H4428 Philistines H6430 looked H8259 (H8686) through...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST THEOPHANY - PROMISE OF BLESSING AND PROSPERITY TO HIM AND TO THE WORLD (GENESIS 26:2)....

  • 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

    _He said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife_ ISAAC’S FALSE EXPEDIENT I. THE TEMPTATION COMES AFTER A TIME OF GREAT BLESSING. We are wise and happy if we can use the time of grea...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:8 SAW ISAAC LAUGHING WITH REBEKAH. The Hebrew verb implies they were laughing while caressing affectionately. ⇐...

  • 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 26:8. Sporting.] “That is, taking freedoms—using familiarities with her, such as exceeded those that were common between brothers and sisters.” (_Bush._)— GENESIS 26:10. ONE...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 26:7 AND THE MEN OF THE PLACE (_i_._e_. the inhabitants of Gerar) ASKED HIM (literally, asked, or made inquiries; probably first at each other, though ultimately the interrogations...

  • 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

    a window. Judges 5:28 Proverbs 7:6 Song of Solomon 2:9 sporting. Proverbs 5:18...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    This Abimelech was not the same that was in Abraham's days, Genesis 20:2, for this was near an hundred years after, but that was the common name of the Philistine kings, as Caesar of the Roman emperor...

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