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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Genesis 26:4

In thy seed, &c.— The temporal and the spiritual covenant, respecting the land of Canaan, and the Messiah, were thus established and confirmed with Isaac. The Rabbins have assigned various senses to the words used in Genesis 26:5 to express Abraham's obedience; but it is most reasonable to believe, that they unitedly express "his complete and entire performance of the Will of God." Abraham, says Mr. Chais, having thus completely obeyed the Divine will, God perpetuates his family: not that, to speak with strictness, the patriarch merited by his obedience; for by that obedience what did he more than his duty? but because God is always the same, always good, always merciful.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 26:4. _I WILL MAKE THY SEED - AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN_] A promise often repeated to Abraham, and which has been most amply fulfilled both in its _literal_ and _spiritual_ sense....

  • 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

    STARS. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _as the stars of heaven_ See note on Genesis 13:1-6; cf. Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17. _be blessed_ R.V. marg. rightly, _bless themselves_. See...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PART THIRTY-EIGHT THE STORY OF ISAAC: HIS SOJOURN IN PHILISTIA (Genesis 26:1-34) The Biblical Record 1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham, A...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM, AND SAID, GO NOT DOWN INTO EGYPT; DWELL IN THE LAND WHICH I SHALL TELL THEE OF:_ And the Lord appeared unto him. This was the first divine communication made to Isaac...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    26:4 themselves (g-34) Or 'be blessed,' see ch. 22.18....

  • 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 repeated to Isaac the promises that he had made to Abraham. (See Genesis 12:2-3; Genesis 15:18-21; Genesis 17:1-8; Genesis 22

  • 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

    THESE COUNTRIES. — On the archaic form of the pronoun _these,_ see Note on Genesis 19:8. The countries are enumerated in Genesis 15:19. For the “oath,” see Genesis 22:16; and for the metaphor, “as the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הִרְבֵּיתִ֤י אֶֽת ־זַרְעֲךָ֙ כְּ כֹוכְבֵ֣י...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Psalms 37:3; Genesis 12:10 Very sweet are the renewals of divine assurances. My brother! if you know what it is, as one of old did, against hope to believe in hope, you will know also how to walk by f...

  • 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 I WILL MAKE THY SEED TO MULTIPLY AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN,.... Meaning in the line of Jacob especially, if not only; from whom sprung twelve patriarchs, the heads of so many tribes, which in process...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; Ver. 4. _As the stars of h...

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

    _I will make thy seed to multiply_ Here we find a renewal to Isaac of all God's promises made to Abraham; and the great fundamental mysterious promise is renewed exactly in the same words in which it...

  • 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

    The Lord Blesses Isaac...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;...

  • 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

    1-5 Isaac had been trained up in a believing dependence upon the Divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs; and now that there is a famine in the land, Isaac still cleaves to the covena...

  • 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 26:4 descendants H2233 multiply H7235 (H8689) stars H3556 heaven H8064 give H5414 (H8804) descendants H2233 t

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of. Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and to your see...

  • 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

    _Unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father._ THE COVENANT RENEWED TO ISAAC I. IT WAS RENEWED TO HIM IN A TIME O...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 26:3 I WILL ESTABLISH THE OATH THAT I SWORE TO ABRAHAM. This refers to the oath in Genesis 22:16, the substance of which is repeated here (s

  • 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 26:1. The first famine that was in the days of Abraham.] This happened nearly an hundred years before the present one. _Abimelech._ Means, “My father, the king.” This was prob...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 26:1 AND THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND (of Canaan), BESIDE THE FIRST (_i_._e_. first recorded) FAMINE THAT WAS IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM—at least a century previous (_vide _Genesis 1...

  • 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

    multiply. Genesis 13:16 Genesis 15:5 Genesis 15:18 Genesis 17:4 Genesi

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