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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 26:2

The Lord appeared unto him. — Only once besides does Jehovah manifest himself to Isaac (Genesis 26:24), and sixty years had now passed since the revelations recorded in Genesis 22. Excepting to Abraham, it was only at rare and distant intervals that God spake to the patriarchs. The greater part of their lives was spent under the control of the same ordinary Providence as that which governs our actions now; but on special occasions God was pleased to confirm their faith in Him in a way not necessary now that we have had made known to us the whole counsel of God.

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See also Genesis 26:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 26:2. _GO NOT DOWN INTO EGYPT_] As Abraham had taken refuge in that country, it is probable that Isaac was preparing to go thither also; and God, foreseeing that he would there meet with...

  • 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

    GO NOT DOWN (as Abraham did, Genesis 12:10)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _appeared_ The promises here made to Isaac are, for the most part, reiterated from Genesis 12:2-3; Genesis 15:5; Genesis 17:6-8; Genesis

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND THE LORD, &C.— I should be for rendering the _vau_ here, _for_, instead of _and,_ as the French version has it, _car;_ because this second verse gives the reason why Isaac went to Gerar, and not t...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GO NOT DOWN INTO EGYPT] to get food as Abraham did. The covenant blessing is renewed and the possession of Canaan assured to Isaac. He is encouraged to stay in Canaan in dependence on God....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘Do not go down to Egypt.’ Egypt was a good place to live when there was a *famine. The river Nile provided water for Egypt. Therefore, crops grew in Egypt even when there was no rain. And so there wa...

  • 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....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ יֵּרָ֤א אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַ יֹּ֖אמֶר אַל

  • 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 the LORD appeared unto him, and said, (b) Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: (b) God's providence always watches to direct the ways of his children....

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._And the Lord appeared unto him_. I do not doubt but a reason is here given why Isaac rather went to the country of Gerar than to Egypt, which perhaps would have been more convenient for him; but Mo...

  • 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 THE LORD APPEARED UNTO HIM,.... In a vision or dream, when he was at Gerar: AND SAID, GO NOT DOWN INTO EGYPT; as his father had done in the like case, and where Isaac thought to have gone, and th...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: Ver. 2. _And the Lord appeared unto him._] God knows our souls, and our souls him, best...

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

    _Go not down into Egypt_ Whither, it is likely, Isaac had intended to go, it being a very fruitful country, and he being encouraged to go thither by his father's example, on a similar occasion. No dou...

  • 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 the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down in to Egypt, that, evidently, having been the intention of Isaac, since Egypt was the granary of all the surrounding countries, especially in lean...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Lord Blesses Isaac...

  • 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

    To Egypt it seems Isaac intended to go, it being a very fruitful place, and being encouraged to do so by his father's example upon the same occasion. But God saw good reasons to forbid Isaac to go thi...

  • 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 26:2 LORD H3068 appeared H7200 (H8735) said H559 (H8799) down H3381 (H8799) Egypt H4714 live...

  • 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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    GO NOT DOWN (_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 46:3). _...

  • 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 26:1 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

    appeared. Genesis 12:7 Genesis 17:1 Genesis 18:1 Genesis 18:10 dwell. Genes

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord said, go not down into Egypt. Sojourn in this land — There was a famine in Jacob's days, and God bid him go down into Egypt, Genesis 46:3, a famine in Isaac's days, and God bid him not go dow...

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