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Verse Genesis 26:30. _HE MADE THEM A FEAST_] Probably on the
_sacrifice_ that was offered on the occasion of making this covenant.
This was a common custom....
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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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_a feast_ A "feast" was partaken of by the two parties in a covenant.
Cf. Genesis 31:54. Here it is an evening "drinking banquet" cf.
Genesis 19:3....
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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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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 יַּ֤עַשׂ לָהֶם֙ מִשְׁתֶּ֔ה וַ
יֹּאכְל֖וּ וַ יִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃...
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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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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 HE MADE THEM A FEAST,.... Made a feast like a king, for the king
and his grandees; he treated them in a generous way, according to
their dignity, and agreeable to his own disposition and substance...
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And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
Ver. 30. _And he made them a feast._] Not to mischief them thereat, as
Absalom did Amnon, as Alexander did Philotas, as the great Turk doth
the n...
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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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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 26:30 made H6213 (H8799) feast H4960 ate H398 (H8799) drank
H8354 (H8799)
Genesis 19:3, Genesis 21:8, Genesis 31:54; Romans 12:18; Hebrews
12:14;...
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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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Genesis 19:3 Genesis 21:8 Genesis 31:54 Romans 12:18 Hebrews 12:14 1
Peter 4:9...