Marginal Notes in the KJV (1611)
Genesis 26:21
Sitnah:
that is, Hatred
Sitnah:
that is, Hatred
Verse Genesis 26:21. _THEY DIGGED ANOTHER WELL_] Never did any man more implicitly follow the Divine command, _Resist not evil_, than Isaac; whenever he found that his work was likely to be a subject...
- 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,”...
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...
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;...
SITNAH. Hebrew opposition....
_Sitnah_ That is, _Enmity_. This name is connected with the same root as the word _satan_, "adversary"; cf. Numbers 20:22; 1 Samuel 29:4. It has been doubtfully identified with a modern name, _Wady-Su...
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...
_AND THEY DIGGED ANOTHER WELL, AND STROVE FOR THAT ALSO: AND HE CALLED THE NAME OF IT SITNAH._ Sitnah, х_ SITNAAH_ (H7856)] - hatred, accusation. Wilton suggests that this well was dug in Wady esh-Sh...
26:21 Sitnah. (f-19) Opposition....
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...
ESEK] 'contention.' SITNAH] 'Enmity.' REHOBOTH] 'enlargement,' i.e. room to settle. 26-31. Isaac and Abimelech make a covenant to abstain mutually from aggressions....
The *Philistines still quarrelled with Isaac’s men because there was not enough space. But when Isaac moved far enough away they stopped quarrelling. ‘Esek’ means ‘difficulty’. ‘Sitnah’ means ‘quarre...
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....
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...
(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...
וַֽ יַּחְפְּרוּ֙ בְּאֵ֣ר אַחֶ֔רֶת וַ יָּרִ֖יבוּ...
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...
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...
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...
Sitnah means hatred...
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...
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...
AND THEY DIGGED ANOTHER WELL,.... That is, Isaac's servants: AND STROVE FOR THAT ALSO; the herdsmen of Gerar disputed their right to that also, and strove to get it from them: AND HE CALLED THE NAME...
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. Ver. 21. _And he called the name of it Sitnah._] Of Satan; to hate deadly, as the devil doth. So the Preac...
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...
And they digged an other well, and strove for that also; and he called the name of it Sitnah (hatred). Isaac suffered all this injustice and harm with the greatest patience and forbearance, preferring...
The Enmity of the Philistines...
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...
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...
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...
No text from Poole on this verse....
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...
Genesis 26:21 dug H2658 (H8799) another H312 well H875 quarreled H7378 (H8799) called H7121 (H8799) name...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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.
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...
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...
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)....
Sitnah. i.e., Hatred. Ezra 4:6...
Sitnah — That is, hatred....