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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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STARS. Figure of speech _Paroemia._ App-6....
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_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...
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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
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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26:4 themselves (g-34) Or 'be blessed,' see ch. 22.18....
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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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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
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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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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...
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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...
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וְ הִרְבֵּיתִ֤י אֶֽת ־זַרְעֲךָ֙ כְּ
כֹוכְבֵ֣י...
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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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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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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 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...
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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...
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_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...
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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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The Lord Blesses Isaac...
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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;...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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 26:4 descendants H2233 multiply H7235 (H8689) stars H3556
heaven H8064 give H5414 (H8804) descendants H2233 t
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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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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 26:3 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
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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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multiply. Genesis 13:16 Genesis 15:5 Genesis 15:18 Genesis 17:4 Genesi