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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...
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- 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,”...
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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...
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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;...
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GO NOT DOWN (as Abraham did, Genesis 12:10)....
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_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
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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....
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‘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...
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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....
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וַ יֵּרָ֤א אֵלָיו֙ יְהוָ֔ה וַ
יֹּ֖אמֶר אַל
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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The Lord Blesses Isaac...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Genesis 26:2 LORD H3068 appeared H7200 (H8735) said H559 (H8799) down
H3381 (H8799) Egypt H4714 live...
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THE FIRST THEOPHANY - PROMISE OF BLESSING AND PROSPERITY TO HIM AND TO
THE WORLD (GENESIS 26:2)....
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‘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...
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GO NOT DOWN
(_ See Scofield) - (Genesis 46:3). _...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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appeared. Genesis 12:7 Genesis 17:1 Genesis 18:1 Genesis 18:10 dwell.
Genes
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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...