Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Genesis:
Chapter 26
1. AND
there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the
days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto A-bim-e-lech king of the
Philistines unto Gerar.
2. And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt;
dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
3. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee;
for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I
will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
4. And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will
give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the
nations of the earth be blessed;
5. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my
commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
6. And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
7. And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is
my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men
of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look
upon.
8. And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that A-bim-e-lech
king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac
was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
9. And A-bim-e-lech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is
thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said
unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
10. And A-bim-e-lech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of
the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest
have brought guiltiness upon us.
11. And A-bim-e-lech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth
this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
12. Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an
hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
13. And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became
very great:
14. For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great
store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15. For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days
of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them
with earth.
16. And A-bim-e-lech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
mightier than we.
17. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
18. 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 the names by
which his father had called them.
19. And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of
springing water.
20. And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying,
The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they
strove with him.
21. And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he
called the name of it Sitnah.
22. And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that
they strove not: and he called the name of it Re-ho-both; and said, For
now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the
land.
23. And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
24. And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the
God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless
thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
25. And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD,
and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
26. Then A-bim-e-lech went to him from Gerar, and A-huz-zath one of his
friends, and Phi-chol the chief captain of his army.
27. And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate
me, and have sent me away from you?
28. 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;
29. 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.
30. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
31. And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another:
and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
23. And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and
told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him,
We have found water.
33. And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba
unto this day.
34. And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the
daughter of Beer-i the Hittite, and Bash-e-math the daughter of Elon the
Hittite:
35. Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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