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Verse Genesis 26:18. _IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM_] Instead of בימי
_bimey_, in the days, Houbigant contends we should read עבדי
_abdey_, servants. Isaac digged again the wells which the _servants_
of Abra...
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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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IN THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM HIS FATHER. Isaac. placid character; shown by
his obedience (Genesis 22:6; Genesis 22:8), his meekness in betrothal
(24), his mourning for his mother (Genesis 24:63. compare not...
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ISAAC DIGGED AGAIN, &C.— Many reasons might induce Isaac to open
these wells again: 1st, Because he was sure to find water there: 2nd,
Because he could open them more easily than dig new ones: 3rdly,...
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6. _The Contention over Wells_ (Genesis 26:18-22). The whole of the
southern frontier of Palestine, called the Negeb or -south country,-'
consisting of vast undulating plains, which extend between the...
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_AND ISAAC DIGGED AGAIN THE WELLS OF WATER, WHICH THEY HAD DIGGED IN
THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM HIS FATHER; FOR THE PHILISTINES HAD STOPPED THEM
AFTER THE DEATH OF ABRAHAM: AND HE CALLED THEIR NAMES AFTER TH...
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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 יָּ֨שָׁב יִצְחָ֜ק וַ יַּחְפֹּ֣ר ׀
אֶת ־בְּאֵרֹ֣ת הַ מַּ֗יִם אֲשֶׁ֤ר
חָֽפְרוּ֙ בִּ ימֵי֙ אַבְרָהָ֣ם...
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ISAAC'S WELLS AND COVENANT
Genesis 26:18
It is interesting to follow Isaac in his well-digging. Let us also dig
wells and set streams flowing, which will bless men long after we have
gone home to hea...
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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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_Servants. So the Septuagint and Syriac versions, and the Samaritan
copy against the Hebrew, in the days, which is incorrect. (Kennicott)_...
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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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18._And Isaac digged again the wells of water_. First, we see that the
holy man was so hated by his neighbors, as to be under the necessity
of seeking a retreat for himself which was destitute of wate...
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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 ISAAC DIGGED AGAIN THE WELLS OF WATER, WHICH THEY HAD DIGGED IN
THE DAYS OF ABRAHAM HIS FATHER,.... This seems to refer to the same
wells made mention of in Genesis 26:15, since it follows,
FOR T...
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_And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in
the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them
after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after th...
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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 Enmity of the Philistines...
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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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18-25 Isaac met with much opposition in digging wells. Two were called
Contention and Hatred. See the nature of worldly things; they make
quarrels, and are occasions of strife; and what is often the l...
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Though there might be a brook there, probably it was but little, and
soon dried up. AND ISAAC DIGGED those rather than new ones, partly to
keep up his father's memory, and partly because he had most r...
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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 26:18 Isaac H3327 dug H2658 (H8799) again H7725 (H8799) wells
H875 water H4325 dug H2658 (H8804) days H3117 Abraham H85 father H1
Philistines H6430 stopped H5640 (H8762) after H310 death H4194...
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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 digged again the wells of water_
ISAAC’S WELLS
These four names are the names (Genesis 26:20; Genesis 26:33) of four
wells of springing water, dug in a valley, to feed families and
flocks.
“...
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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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in the days. and he. Genesis 21:31 Numbers 32:38 Psalms 16:4 Hosea
2:17 Zechariah 13:2...