# Genesis 26 📖 [[📚 Explore the Bible Books]] [[Genesis Overview]]. [[Genesis 25]]. [[Genesis 27]]. > [!info] Table of Contents > [[#📜 Scripture Text (NET)]] [[#📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary]] [[#🧠 Chapter Summary]] [[#🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application]] [[#✍️ Key Verses to Remember]] > [[#🤔 Interesting Facts]] [[#🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference]] [[#🙏 Devotional Reflection]] ## 📜 Scripture Text (NET) (The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005) ### Isaac and Abimelech [[#Verse 01.]] There 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.  [[#Verse 02.]] The Lord appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.  [[#Verse 03.]] Stay 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. [[#Verse 04.]] I 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. [[#Verse 05.]] All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”  [[#Verse 06.]] So Isaac settled in Gerar. [[#Verse 07.]] When 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.” [[#Verse 08.]] After 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.  [[#Verse 09.]] So 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.” [[#Verse 10.]] Then 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!”  [[#Verse 11.]] So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” [[#Verse 12.]] When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.  [[#Verse 13.]] The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.  [[#Verse 14.]] He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.  [[#Verse 15.]] So 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. [[#Verse 16.]] Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”  [[#Verse 17.]] So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.  [[#Verse 18.]] Isaac 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. [[#Verse 19.]] When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,  [[#Verse 20.]] the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esekbecause they argued with him about it. [[#Verse 21.]] His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.  [[#Verse 22.]] Then 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.” [[#Verse 23.]] From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.  [[#Verse 24.]] The 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.”  [[#Verse 25.]] Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well. [[#Verse 26.]] Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friendand Phicol the commander of his army. [[#Verse 27.]] Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”  [[#Verse 28.]] They 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 you  [[#Verse 29.]] so 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.” [[#Verse 30.]] So Isaac held a feast for them and they celebrated.  [[#Verse 31.]] Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms. [[#Verse 32.]] That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.  [[#Verse 33.]] So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day. [[#Verse 34.]] When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, as well as Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.  [[#Verse 35.]] They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety. ## ==📖 Verse-by-Verse Commentary== **Verse 7-11**. Abraham told a 1/2 truth when speaking of Sarah as his sister. They had the same father but different mothers. Isaac had no close famillial connection to Rebekah. Therefore, he went one step further by speaking a full lie. Both are wrong. ###### Overall. ###### Verse 01. ###### Verse 02. ###### Verse 03. ###### Verse 04. ###### Verse 05. ###### Verse 06. ###### Verse 07. ###### Verse 08. ###### Verse 09. ###### Verse 10. ###### Verse 11. ###### Verse 12. ###### Verse 13. ###### Verse 14. ###### Verse 15. ###### Verse 16. ###### Verse 17. ###### Verse 18. ###### Verse 19. ###### Verse 20. ###### Verse 21. ###### Verse 22. ###### Verse 23. ###### Verse 24. ###### Verse 25. ###### Verse 26. ###### Verse 27. ###### Verse 28. ###### Verse 29. ###### Verse 30. ###### Verse 31. ###### Verse 32. ###### Verse 33. ###### Verse 34. ###### Verse 35. ## 🤔 Interesting Facts / Historical and Cultural Insights - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write down things that are not straight from commentary but interesting facts that ground the text in history. %% ## 🧠 Chapter Summary - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write a short paragraph (3–5 sentences) summarizing what happens in this chapter. - What is the main event or teaching? - How does this chapter fit the book’s overall story? - What stands out immediately? Anything Apologetic to point out? %% ## 🔎 Key Principles / 🛟 Life Application - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📌 Observation 1 - 📌 Observation 2 - 📌 Observation 3 - (Add more as needed.) %% %% #### Today, I can apply this chapter by: - ✅ Application 1 - ✅ Application 2 Make these very practical: - "Trust God's timing in an uncertain situation." - "Speak truth even when it’s unpopular." Think: - What do we learn about God here? - What do we learn about people? - Are there promises, commands, or warnings? %% ## ✍️ Key Verses to Remember - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of important verse." - 📖 [Verse Reference] – "Quote of another important verse." (You can link to deeper notes if you want later.) %% ## 🔗 Related Passages/Cross Reference - 🔗 coming soon. - 🔗 coming soon. %% Examples: - John 1:1 and Genesis 1 - Romans 5 and Genesis 3 %% ## 🙏 Devotional Reflection - coming soon. %% PRIVATE NOTES (only I see this) Write 3–6 sentences reflecting on: - How this chapter encourages your faith, - Convicts your heart, - Reveals God's character. Optional format: "In light of this chapter, I am challenged to..." or "I am comforted by..." %% ##### 📂 Internal Links/Personal Notes