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Verse Genesis 26:12. _ISAAC SOWED IN THAT LAND_] Being now perfectly
free from the fear of evil, he betakes himself to agricultural and
pastoral pursuits, in which he has the especial blessing of God,...
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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; Genesis 26:18 are harmonistic insertion...
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RECEIVED. Hebrew found. Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of the
Species). Compare Genesis 6:8; Romans 4:1....
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THEN ISAAC SOWED, &C.— Continuing a long time in the land, Genesis
26:8 he applied himself to husbandry, for his own and his family's
support; and _that God,_ whose _blessing maketh rich the hand of t...
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5. _Isaac's Successful Venture into Agriculture_ (Genesis 26:12-17).
Besides planting trees, Abraham was to the end of his life a nomad,
Isaac, however, begins to pursue agriculture along with his nom...
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_THEN ISAAC SOWED IN THAT LAND, AND RECEIVED IN THE SAME YEAR AN
HUNDREDFOLD: AND THE LORD BLESSED HIM._
Then Isaac sowed. During his sojourn in that district he farmed a
piece of land which, by the...
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26:12 received (a-8) Lit. 'found.'...
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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’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 de...
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וַ יִּזְרַ֤ע יִצְחָק֙ בָּ † אָ֣רֶץ הַ
הִ֔וא וַ יִּמְצָ֛א בַּ † שָּׁנָ֥ה הַ
הִ֖וא...
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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 b...
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_And the Lord. This is not mentioned as a miracle; for Egypt and many
other countries produced 100 fold. Pliny, Natural History xviii. 10,
says, some parts of Africa rendered 150 times as much as was...
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That is a sweet promise Isaiah 65:18; Psalms 112:1...
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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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12._Then Isaac sowed_. Here Moses proceeds to relate in what manner
Isaac reaped the manifest fruit of the blessing promised to him by
God; for he says, that when he had sowed, the increase was a
hund...
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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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THEN, ISAAC SOWED IN THAT LAND,.... In the land of Gerar; after
matters were settled between him and Abimelech, and he had ordered his
servants to do him no hurt, he sowed wheat or barley, or some suc...
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Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an
hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Ver. 12. _Then Isaac sowed in that land._] In ground hired for his
use, and managed by himself:...
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_Isaac sowed in that land_ Either in grounds which he had hired of the
right owners, or in some which lay neglected, and therefore were free
to the first occupier. That this should be the case, in tha...
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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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REBEKAH'S DANGER...
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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 Phil...
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RECEIVED:
_ Heb._ found...
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12-17 God blessed Isaac. Be it observed, for the encouragement of poor
tenants who occupy other people's lands, and are honest and
industrious, that God blessed him with a great increase. The
Philisti...
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ISAAC SOWED IN THAT LAND; either in the grounds which he had hired of
the right owners, or in some grounds which lay neglected, and
therefore were free to the first occupier; which was not strange in...
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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 26:12 Isaac H3327 sowed H2232 (H8799) land H776 reaped H4672
(H8799) year H8141 hundredfold H3967 H8180 LORD H3068 blessed H1288
(H8762)
received - Heb. found
an hundredfold - Psalms 67:6, Ps...
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ISAAC AND ABIMELECH - A STORY OF WELLS (GENESIS 26:12).
Genesis 26:12
‘And Isaac sowed in that land and found in that same year a
hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. And the man became great (in
r...
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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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_Isaac sowed. .. and the Lord blessed him_
THE PROSPERITY OF ISAAC
In this narrative it is Isaac the prosperous man who comes to view.
Examine the sources and circumstances of his remarkable, unequ...
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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 26:13. Went forward.] Heb. “Went or walked, going;”
_i.e.,_ “Became increasingly greater.” The Heb. term for walk is
frequently used in the sense of continued increase.
GENE...
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EXPOSITION
GENESIS 26:12
THEN ISAAC SOWED IN THAT LAND,—viz; Philistia. Though a distinct
advance on the purely nomadic life pursued by Abraham, this did not
imply fixed property in, or even permanen...
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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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sowed. received. Heb. found. an hundredfold. Psalms 67:6 Psalms 72:16
Ecclesiastes 11:6 Zechariah 8:12 Matthew 13:8 Matthew 13:23 Mark 4:8 1
Corinthians 3:6 2 Corinthians 9:10...
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Isaac received an hundred fold — And there seems to be an emphasis
laid upon the time; it was that same year when there was a famine in
the land; while others scarce reaped at all, he reaped thus
plen...