26:1 Now
there
was
a
famine
in
the
land,
besides
the
former
famine
that
was
in
the
days
of
Abraham.
And
Isaac
went
to
Gerar
to
Abimelech
king
of
the
Philistines.
26:2 And
the
LORD
appeared
to
him
and
said,
"Do
not
go
down
to
Egypt;
dwell
in
the
land
of
which
I
shall
tell
you.
26:3 Sojourn
in
this
land,
and
I
will
be
with
you
and
will
bless
you,
for
to
you
and
to
your
offspring
I
will
give
all
these
lands,
and
I
will
establish
the
oath
that
I
swore
to
Abraham
your
father.
26:4 I
will
multiply
your
offspring
as
the
stars
of
heaven
and
will
give
to
your
offspring
all
these
lands.
And
in
your
offspring
all
the
nations
of
the
earth
shall
be
blessed,
26:5 because
Abraham
obeyed
my
voice
and
kept
my
charge,
my
commandments,
my
statutes,
and
my
laws."
26:6 So
Isaac
settled
in
Gerar.
26:7 When
the
men
of
the
place
asked
him
about
his
wife,
he
said,
"She
is
my
sister,"
for
he
feared
to
say,
"My
wife,"
thinking,
"lest
the
men
of
the
place
should
kill
me
because
of
Rebekah,"
because
she
was
attractive
in
appearance.
26:8 When
he
had
been
there
a
long
time,
Abimelech
king
of
the
Philistines
looked
out
of
a
window
and
saw
Isaac
laughing
with
Rebekah
his
wife.
26:9 So
Abimelech
called
Isaac
and
said,
"Behold,
she
is
your
wife.
How
then
could
you
say,
'She
is
my
sister'"
Isaac
said
to
him,
"Because
I
thought,
'Lest
I
die
because
of
her.'"
26:10 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
upon
us."
26:11 So
Abimelech
warned
all
the
people,
saying,
"Whoever
touches
this
man
or
his
wife
shall
surely
be
put
to
death."
26:12 And
Isaac
sowed
in
that
land
and
reaped
in
the
same
year
a
hundredfold.
The
LORD
blessed
him,
26:13 and
the
man
became
rich,
and
gained
more
and
more
until
he
became
very
wealthy.
26:14 He
had
possessions
of
flocks
and
herds
and
many
servants,
so
that
the
Philistines
envied
him.
26:15 (Now
the
Philistines
had
stopped
and
filled
with
earth
all
the
wells
that
his
father's
servants
had
dug
in
the
days
of
Abraham
his
father.)
26:16 And
Abimelech
said
to
Isaac,
"Go
away
from
us,
for
you
are
much
mightier
than
we."
26:17 So
Isaac
departed
from
there
and
encamped
in
the
Valley
of
Gerar
and
settled
there.
26:18 And
Isaac
dug
again
the
wells
of
water
that
had
been
dug
in
the
days
of
Abraham
his
father,
which
the
Philistines
had
stopped
after
the
death
of
Abraham.
And
he
gave
them
the
names
that
his
father
had
given
them.
26:19 But
when
Isaac's
servants
dug
in
the
valley
and
found
there
a
well
of
spring
water,
26:20 the
herdsmen
of
Gerar
quarreled
with
Isaac's
herdsmen,
saying,
"The
water
is
ours."
So
he
called
the
name
of
the
well
Esek,
because
they
contended
with
him.
26:21 Then
they
dug
another
well,
and
they
quarreled
over
that
also,
so
he
called
its
name
Sitnah.
26:22 And
he
moved
from
there
and
dug
another
well,
and
they
did
not
quarrel
over
it.
So
he
called
its
name
Rehoboth,
saying,
"For
now
the
LORD
has
made
room
for
us,
and
we
shall
be
fruitful
in
the
land."
26:23 From
there
he
went
up
to
Beersheba.
26:24 And
the
LORD
appeared
to
him
the
same
night
and
said,
"I
am
the
God
of
Abraham
your
father.
Fear
not,
for
I
am
with
you
and
will
bless
you
and
multiply
your
offspring
for
my
servant
Abraham's
sake."
26:25 So
he
built
an
altar
there
and
called
upon
the
name
of
the
LORD
and
pitched
his
tent
there.
And
there
Isaac's
servants
dug
a
well.
26:26 When
Abimelech
went
to
him
from
Gerar
with
Ahuzzath
his
adviser
and
Phicol
the
commander
of
his
army,
26:27 Isaac
said
to
them,
"Why
have
you
come
to
me,
seeing
that
you
hate
me
and
have
sent
me
away
from
you"
26:28 They
said,
"We
see
plainly
that
the
LORD
has
been
with
you.
So
we
said,
let
there
be
a
sworn
pact
between
us,
between
you
and
us,
and
let
us
make
a
covenant
with
you,
26:29 that
you
will
do
us
no
harm,
just
as
we
have
not
touched
you
and
have
done
to
you
nothing
but
good
and
have
sent
you
away
in
peace.
You
are
now
the
blessed
of
the
LORD."
26:30 So
he
made
them
a
feast,
and
they
ate
and
drank.
26:31 In
the
morning
they
rose
early
and
exchanged
oaths.
And
Isaac
sent
them
on
their
way,
and
they
departed
from
him
in
peace.
26:32 That
same
day
Isaac's
servants
came
and
told
him
about
the
well
that
they
had
dug
and
said
to
him,
"We
have
found
water."
26:33 He
called
it
Shibah;
therefore
the
name
of
the
city
is
Beersheba
to
this
day.
26:34 When
Esau
was
forty
years
old,
he
took
Judith
the
daughter
of
Beeri
the
Hittite
to
be
his
wife,
and
Basemath
the
daughter
of
Elon
the
Hittite,
26:35 and
they
made
life
bitter
for
Isaac
and
Rebekah.