In a single chapter, God reaffirms the Abrahamic covenant to Isaac, Isaac prospers through famine, and God speaks at Beersheba: do not be afraid.
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There was a famine in the land In addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar
The LORD appeared to him and said Don’t go down into Egypt Live in the land I will tell you about Live in this land and I will be with you And will bless you For I will give to you and to your offspring All these lands
And I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky And will give all these lands to your offspring In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed
Because Abraham obeyed my voice And kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws Isaac lived in Gerar The men of the place asked him about his wife He said She is my sister
For he was afraid to say My wife lest the men of the place might kill him for Rebekah Because she is beautiful to look at When he had been there a long time Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window And saw and behold Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife
Abimelech called Isaac and said Behold surely she is your wife Why did you say she is my sister? Isaac said to him Because I said lest I die because of her Abimelech said What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife
And you would have brought guilt on us Abimelech commanded all the people saying He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death Isaac sowed in that land And reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted The LORD blessed him
The man grew great and grew more and more until he became very great He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds And a great household The Philistines envied him Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug In the days of Abraham his father The Philistines had stopped and filled with earth
Abimelech said to Isaac Go away from us for you are much mightier than we Isaac departed from there and encamped in the valley of Gerar And lived there Isaac dug again the wells of water which they had dug In the days of Abraham his father For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham He called their names after the names by which his father had called them
Isaac’s servants dug in the valley And found there a well of flowing water The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen Saying the water is ours So he called the name of the well Esek Because they contended with him They dug another well and they argued over that also
So he called its name Sitnah He left that place and dug another well They didn’t argue over that one So he called it Rehoboth He said For now the LORD has made room for us And we will be fruitful in the land He went up from there to Beersheba The LORD appeared to him the same night And said I am the God of Abraham your father Don’t be afraid for I am with you And will bless you and multiply your offspring For my servant Abraham’s sake
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Genesis 26 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.