Genesis 26 (NET)

Genesis 26:1¹There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:10Gen 25:11Gen 21:22-32Gen 20:1-2

Genesis 26:2²The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:7Gen 12:1Gen 17:1Gen 18:1Ps 37:3Gen 18:10-20

Genesis 26:3³Stay in this land. Then I will be with you and will bless you, for I will give all these lands to you and to your descendants, and I will fulfill the solemn promise I made to your father Abraham.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 28:15Ps 105:9Gen 13:15Gen 22:16-18Gen 12:7Gen 17:8Gen 20:1Heb 11:9Gen 13:17Gen 15:18

Genesis 26:4⁴I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:25Gen 12:2-3Gen 15:5Gal 3:8Gen 13:16Gen 22:17-18Exod 32:13Gal 3:16Ps 72:17Gen 17:4-8

Genesis 26:5⁵All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 7:24Gen 22:18Gen 22:16Jas 2:21Ps 112:1-2Heb 11:8Gal 5:6Ps 128:1-61 Cor 15:58Gen 12:4

Genesis 26:6⁶So Isaac settled in Gerar.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:1

Genesis 26:7⁷When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 29:25Gen 12:13Gen 20:2Gen 24:16Gen 20:12-13Col 3:9Eph 5:25Matt 10:28Gen 20:5

Genesis 26:8⁸After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 62:5Judg 5:28Prov 5:18-19Prov 7:6Song 2:9Eccl 9:9

Genesis 26:9⁹So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 26:10¹⁰Then Abimelech exclaimed, “What in the world have you done to us? One of the men nearly took your wife to bed, and you would have brought guilt on us!”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 12:18-19Gen 20:9-10

Genesis 26:11¹¹So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 105:15Gen 20:6Prov 6:29Zech 2:8

Genesis 26:12¹²When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 4:8Gen 26:32 Cor 9:10-11Gen 24:1Gen 24:35Zech 8:12Eccl 11:6Gal 6:7-8Job 42:12Ps 67:6

Genesis 26:13¹³The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:22Ps 112:3Gen 24:35

Genesis 26:14¹⁴He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 37:111 Sam 18:9Eccl 4:4Gen 12:16Gen 13:2Job 1:3Job 42:12Job 5:2Prov 10:22Prov 27:4

Genesis 26:15¹⁵So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:30Gen 21:25

Genesis 26:16¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 1:9

Genesis 26:17¹⁷So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Genesis 26:18¹⁸Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Zech 13:2Gen 21:31Hos 2:17Num 32:38Ps 16:4

Genesis 26:19¹⁹When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 4:10-11John 7:38Song 4:15

Genesis 26:20²⁰the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:25

Genesis 26:21²¹His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 4:6

Genesis 26:22²²Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 17:6Exod 1:7Ps 118:5Gen 28:3Gen 41:52Ps 18:19Ps 4:1

Genesis 26:23²³From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:31Gen 46:1Judg 20:1

Genesis 26:24²⁴The Lord appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 15:1Exod 3:6Gen 17:7Acts 7:32Gen 24:12Isa 43:1-2Rev 1:17Gen 13:16Gen 28:13Gen 31:5

Genesis 26:25²⁵Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 13:18Ps 116:17Gen 12:7-8Exod 17:15Gen 13:4Gen 22:9Gen 33:20Gen 35:1Gen 8:20

Genesis 26:26²⁶Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 20:3Gen 21:22-32

Genesis 26:27²⁷Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 26:16Judg 11:7Acts 7:14Acts 7:27Acts 7:35Acts 7:9Gen 26:14Rev 3:9

Genesis 26:28²⁸They replied, “We could plainly see that the Lord is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us —between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with youCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:22-23Gen 21:31-32Gen 39:5Isa 45:14Isa 61:9Josh 3:71 Cor 14:252 Chr 1:1Gen 24:3Gen 24:41

Genesis 26:29²⁹so that you will not do us any harm, just as we have not harmed you, but have always treated you well before sending you away in peace. Now you are blessed by the Lord.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 24:31Gen 21:22Gen 12:2Gen 22:17Ps 115:15Gen 26:11-12Gen 26:14-15

Genesis 26:30³⁰So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 19:3Heb 12:14Rom 12:18Gen 31:541 Pet 4:9Gen 21:8

Genesis 26:31³¹Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 20:16-171 Sam 30:15Gen 21:31-32Gen 25:33Gen 31:44Heb 6:161 Sam 14:241 Sam 20:3Gen 14:22Gen 19:2

Genesis 26:32³²That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 10:4Gen 26:25Matt 7:7Prov 13:4Prov 2:4-5

Genesis 26:33³³So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 21:31Gen 26:28

Genesis 26:34³⁴When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 36:2Exod 34:16Gen 36:13Gen 24:3Gen 28:9Gen 36:51 Cor 7:2Heb 12:16

Genesis 26:35³⁵They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 27:46-28:2Gen 28:8Gen 6:2