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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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TOUCHED. Figure of speech _Tapeinosis._ App-6. Emphasizing the fact
that so far from injuring him in any way they had shown him favour....
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_as we have … but good_ This statement, scarcely veracious in view
of Genesis 26:15_; Genesis 26:20_, is evidently made in the interests
of policy.
_the blessed of the Lord_ Cf. Genesis 26:12 and Gen...
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DONE UNTO THEE NOTHING BUT GOOD, &C.— It does not appear that
Abimelech had done any real injury towards Isaac, while he was within
his dominions; nor can the contentions of their herdsmen be reasonab...
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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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26:29 that (i-1) Lit. 'if.' see ch. 21.23....
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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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אִם ־תַּעֲשֵׂ֨ה עִמָּ֜נוּ רָעָ֗ה כַּ
אֲשֶׁר֙ לֹ֣א נְגַֽעֲנ֔וּךָ וְ כַ
אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשִׂ֤ינוּ עִמְּךָ֙ רַק...
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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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(l) That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as
we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in
peace: thou [art] now the blessed of the LORD.
(l) The Hebrew...
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Genesis 21:23...
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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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29._As we have not touched thee_. An accusing conscience urges them to
desire to hold him closely bound unto them; and therefore they require
an oath from him that he will not hurt them. For they knew...
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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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THAT THOU WILT DO US NO HURT,.... Neither to our persons nor
properties, to our kingdom and subjects, by invading our land, and
seizing on our kingdom, all which was feared from Isaac's growing
wealth...
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_That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we
have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in
peace: thou [art] now the blessed of the LORD._
Ver. 29. _Thou a...
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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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THAT THOU WILT:
_ Heb._ if thou shalt etc....
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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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WE HAVE NOT TOUCHED THEE, to wit, so as to injure or hurt thee, as
above, GENESIS 26:11. THOU ART NOW THE BLESSED OF THE LORD; or, O
_thou who art now the with blessed of the Lord, _ whom God hath
enr...
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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 26:29 do H6213 (H8799) harm H7451 touched H5060 (H8804) done
H6213 (H8804) but H7535 good H2896 away H7971 (H8762) peace H7965 now
H6258 blessed H1288 (H8803) LORD H3068
THAT THOU WILT - HEB....
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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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That thou wilt. Heb. If thou shalt, etc. not. Genesis 26:11 Genesis
26:14 Genesis 26:15 the blessed. Genesis 26:12 Genesis 12:2 Genesis
21:22 Genesis 22:17 Genesis 24:31 Psalms 115:15...