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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 26:1

XXVI.
ADVENTURES OF ISAAC AT GERAR.

(1) Isaac went... unto Gerar. — Following the stream of Semitic migration (Genesis 12:15), Isaac had originally purposed going to Egypt, but is commanded by God to abide in the land, and upon so doing he receives the assurance that he will be confirmed in the inheritance of the promises made to his father. Isaac was now dwelling at the well Lahai-Roi, and though the exact site of this place is unknown, yet it lay too far to the south for Isaac to have gone to Gerar on his direct way to Egypt.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXVI _A famine in the land obliges Isaac to leave Beer-sheba and_ _go to Gerar_, 1. _God appears to him, and warns him not to go to Egypt_, 2. _Renews the promises to him which he had made...

  • 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

    FAMINE. Accounts for Esau's despair of living, and hence selling his birthright. Genesis 25:29. FIRST. One of the thirteen famines. See note on Genesis 12:10. ABIMELECH. official name. Not the same a...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _beside the first famine_ Referring to the famine mentioned in Genesis 12:10. This clause is probably added by the Compiler (R). _Abimelech king of the Philistines_ This can hardly be the Abimelech me...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ISAAC WENT UNTO ABIMELECH— The _Abimelech_ here mentioned, is thought by some to have been the son of him to whom Abraham went, _Abimelech_ being, as we have observed, a common name of the kings of Pa...

  • 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 THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND, BESIDE THE FIRST FAMINE THAT WAS IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM. AND ISAAC WENT UNTO ABIMELECH KING OF THE PHILISTINES UNTO GERAR._ And there was a famine in the land ......

  • 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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    (For the previous *famine, see Genesis 12:10.) Gerar was a town that was west of Beer-sheba. It was near to the coast. The inhabitants were *Philistines. ‘Abimelech’ means ‘my father is king’. Every...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יְהִ֤י רָעָב֙ בָּ † אָ֔רֶץ מִ...

  • 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 there was a famine in the (a) land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. (a) In the land of Canaan....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS. The beginning of Isaac's spiritual warfare, like that of his father before him, affords large occasion for the exercise of faith. A famine prevails in Canaan: God directs the Patriarch what...

  • 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

    1._And there was a famine_. Moses relates that Isaac was tried by nearly the same kind of temptation as that through which his father Abraham had twice passed. I have before explained how severe and v...

  • 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 THERE WAS A FAMINE IN THE LAND,.... In the land of Canaan, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; BESIDES THE FIRST FAMINE THAT WAS IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM; of which see Genesis 12:10; which was...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. Ver. 1. _Beside the first famine._] New...

  • 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 there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, unto Gerar. The adventures of Isaac, as related in...

  • 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

    GENESIS CHAPTER 26 A famine in the land; Isaac goes to Gerar, GENESIS 26:1. God directs him to abide there, and promises to be with him: the covenant with Abraham also made with Isaac, GENESIS 26:2. T...

  • 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 26:1 famine H7458 land H776 besides H905 first H7223 famine H7458 days H3117 Abraham H85 Isaac H3327 went...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAAC AND ABIMELECH (GENESIS 26:1). As we have been informed earlier, after the death of Abraham Isaac moved to Beer-lahai-roi (Genesis 25:11). When therefore famine arose in the land of Canaan he mus...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    FAMINE (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 12:10). _...

  • 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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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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

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  • 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

    A.M. 2200. B.C. 1804. the first. Genesis 12:10 And Isaac. Genesis 25:11 Abimelech. Genesis 20:2 Genesis 21:22...

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