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Verse Genesis 26:28. _LET THERE BE NOW AN OATH BETWIXT US_] Let us
make a covenant by which we shall be mutually bound, and let it be
ratified in the most solemn manner....
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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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SAW CERTAINLY. Figure of speech _Polyptoton_ (App-6), for emphasis.
Hebrew "seeing we saw". Compare Genesis 2:16 " _freely_ eat"; Genesis
27:30 " _scarce_ gone out"; Genesis 43:3 " _solemnly_ protest...
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_an oath_ A compact sealed by an oath. Cf. Deuteronomy 29:12; Nehemiah
10:29.
_covenant_ See on this word (_b'rîth_) the note on Genesis 15:18....
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LET THERE BE NOW AN OATH, &C.— An oath confirming the covenant and
alliance, as was the case between Abraham and Abimelech: this covenant
was made in due form; and, as was always usual, by the due cer...
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8. _The Covenant with Abimelech_ (Genesis 26:26-33). As Abimelech was
the standing title of the Philistine kings, so Phicol seems to have
been the standing title of the captain (or general) of the arm...
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_THEN ABIMELECH WENT TO HIM FROM GERAR, AND AHUZZATH ONE OF HIS
FRIENDS, AND PHICHOL THE CHIEF CAPTAIN OF HIS ARMY._
Then Abimelech went to him. Since there was a lapse of 70 years
between the visit...
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26:28 oath (h-20) As ch. 24.41....
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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 יֹּאמְר֗וּ רָאֹ֣ו רָאִינוּ֮ כִּֽי
־הָיָ֣ה יְהוָ֣ה ׀ עִמָּךְ֒ וַ
נֹּ֗אמֶר תְּהִ֨י נָ֥א אָלָ֛ה
בֵּינֹותֵ֖ינוּ
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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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Proverbs 21:1...
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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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28._We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee_. By this argument
they prove that they desired a compact with Isaac, not insidiously,
but in good faith, because they acknowledge the favor of God tow...
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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 THEY SAID, WE SAW CERTAINLY THAT THE LORD WAS WITH THEE,.... Not
only while he was among them, by the fruitfulness of the land he
sowed, by the increase of his family, his flocks and herds, but al...
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And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we
said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, [even] betwixt us and thee,
and let us make a covenant with thee;
Ver. 28. _Let there be...
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_The Lord is with thee_, and _thou art the blessed of the Lord_ As if
he had said, Be persuaded to overlook the injuries offered thee, for
God has abundantly made up to thee the damage thou receivedst...
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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 Covenant Between Isaac and Abimelech...
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FOURTH SECTION
_Isaac in Beer-sheba. Treaty of Peace with Abimelech_
GENESIS 26:23-33
23And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. 24And the Lord appeared
unto him the same [first] night, and said,...
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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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WE SAW:
_ Heb._ seeing we saw...
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26-33 When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to
be at peace with him, Proverbs 16:7. Kings' hearts are in his hands,
and when he pleases, he can turn them to favour his people....
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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 26:28 said H559 (H8799) certainly H7200 (H8800) seen H7200
(H8804) LORD H3068 said H559 (H8799) oath H423 between H996 between
H996 make H3772 (H8799) covenant H1285
was with - Genesis 21:22-2...
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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 26:23
AND HE (viz; Isaac) WENT UP FROM THENCE (Rehoboth, where latterly he
had been encamped) TO BEER-SHEBA—a former residence of Abraham
(Genesis 21:33), situated "near the water...
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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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We saw certainly. Heb. Seeing we saw. was with. Genesis 21:22 Genesis
21:23 Genesis 39:5 Joshua 3:7 2 Chronicles 1:1 Isaiah 45:14 Isaiah
60:14 Isaiah 61:6 Isaiah 61:9...
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The Lord is with thee, and thou art the blessed of the Lord, q.d. Be
persuaded to overlook the injuries offered thee, for God has
abundantly made up to thee the damage thou receivedst. Those whom God...