Genesis 26 Flashcards
Genesis 26:1
Now there was a famine in the land - besides the earlier famine of Abraham’s time - and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.
Genesis 26:2
The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.
Genesis 26:3
Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.
Genesis 26:4
I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,
Genesis 26:5
because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws.”
Genesis 26:6
So Isaac stayed in Gerar.
Genesis 26:7
When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”
Genesis 26:8
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Genesis 26:9
So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”
Genesis 26:10
Then Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”
Genesis 26:12
Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.
Genesis 26:13
The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.
Genesis 26:14
He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26:15
So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.