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Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 26:28

saw certainly. Figure of speech Polyptoton (App-6), for emphasis. Hebrew "seeing we saw". Compare Genesis 2:16 " freely eat"; Genesis 27:30 " scarce gone out"; Genesis 43:3 " solemnly protest"; Genesis 43:7 "asked us straitly ", "could we certainly know"; Genesis 43:20 "came indeed down"; Exodus 5:23 "not delivered us at all "; Genesis 18:18 "wilt surely wear away"; Genesis 21:5 "shall plainly say"; Job 37:2 "hear attentively "; Numbers 22:17; Numbers 22:37 "promote thee to very great honour". honouring. will honour thee; Genesis 24:10 " altogether blessed", Hebrew "blessing thou hast blessed". Numbers 26:65; Numbers 30:12 " utterly destroyed"; Genesis 23:11; Genesis 24:10 " altogether blessed".

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See also Genesis 26:28 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 26:28. _LET THERE BE NOW AN OATH BETWIXT US_] Let us make a covenant by which we shall be mutually bound, and let it be ratified in the most solemn manner....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

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  • 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

    _an oath_ A compact sealed by an oath. Cf. Deuteronomy 29:12; Nehemiah 10:29. _covenant_ See on this word (_b'rîth_) the note on Genesis 15:18....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    LET THERE BE NOW AN OATH, &C.— An oath confirming the covenant and alliance, as was the case between Abraham and Abimelech: this covenant was made in due form; and, as was always usual, by the due cer...

  • 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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:28 oath (h-20) As ch. 24.41....

  • 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

    Abimelech was the king of the *Philistines. (See verse 1 and the comment.) Abimelech realised that Isaac had become powerful. Isaac had many servants. So Abimelech did not want Isaac to be an enemy. T...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LET THERE BE NOW AN OATH. — The word literally signifies a _curse._ Each side uttered an imprecation, with the prayer that it might fall upon himself if he broke the terms of the covenant. LET US MAKE...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֹּאמְר֗וּ רָאֹ֣ו רָאִינוּ֮ כִּֽי ־הָיָ֣ה...

  • 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

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  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    28._We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee_. By this argument they prove that they desired a compact with Isaac, not insidiously, but in good faith, because they acknowledge the favor of God tow...

  • 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 THEY SAID, WE SAW CERTAINLY THAT THE LORD WAS WITH THEE,.... Not only while he was among them, by the fruitfulness of the land he sowed, by the increase of his family, his flocks and herds, but al...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; Ver. 28. _Let there be...

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

    _The Lord is with thee_, and _thou art the blessed of the Lord_ As if he had said, Be persuaded to overlook the injuries offered thee, for God has abundantly made up to thee the damage thou receivedst...

  • 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 they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee; and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Covenant Between Isaac and Abimelech...

  • 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...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    WE SAW: _ Heb._ seeing we saw...

  • 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 26:28 said H559 (H8799) certainly H7200 (H8800) seen H7200 (H8804) LORD H3068 said H559 ...

  • 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

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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  • 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

    We saw certainly. Heb. Seeing we saw. was with. Genesis 21:22 Genesis 21:23 Genesis 39:5 Joshua 3:7...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord is with thee, and thou art the blessed of the Lord, q.d. Be persuaded to overlook the injuries offered thee, for God has abundantly made up to thee the damage thou receivedst. Those whom God...

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