{"id":333,"date":"2015-01-10T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T13:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen26\/"},"modified":"2019-07-14T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T23:38:59","slug":"gen26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen26\/","title":{"rendered":"Genesis 26"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"main\">\r\n <div class=\"chapterlabel\"><a name=\"V0\"> 26<\/a><\/div><div class=\"p\">\r\n <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V1\">1\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V2\">2\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V3\">3\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V4\">4\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V5\">5\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V6\">6\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V7\">7\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the men of the place asked <span class=\"add\">him<\/span> of his wife; and he said, She <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> my sister: for he feared to say, <span class=\"add\">She is<\/span> my wife; lest, <span class=\"add\">said he,<\/span> the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> fair to look upon.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V8\">8\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac <span class=\"add\">was<\/span> sporting with Rebekah his wife.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V9\">9\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> thy wife: and how saidst thou, She <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V10\">10\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abimelech said, What <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> 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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V11\">11\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abimelech charged all <span class=\"add\">his<\/span> people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V12\">12\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V13\">13\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V14\">14\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V15\">15\u00a0<\/a><\/span>For all the wells which his father\u2019s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V16\">16\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V17\">17\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V18\">18\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V19\">19\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Isaac\u2019s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V20\">20\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac\u2019s herdmen, saying, The water <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V21\">21\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V22\">22\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V23\">23\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V24\">24\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I <span class=\"add\">am<\/span> the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I <span class=\"add\">am<\/span> with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham\u2019s sake.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V25\">25\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac\u2019s servants digged a well. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V26\">26\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V27\">27\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V28\">28\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, <span class=\"add\">even<\/span> betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V29\">29\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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 <span class=\"add\">art<\/span> now the blessed of the LORD.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V30\">30\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V31\">31\u00a0<\/a><\/span>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.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V32\">32\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac\u2019s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V33\">33\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city <span class=\"add\">is<\/span> Beer-sheba unto this day. <\/div><div class=\"p\"> <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V34\">34\u00a0<\/a><\/span>And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:  <span class=\"verse\"> <a name=\"V35\">35\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. <\/div><hr \/><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n  <div class=\"chapters\">\r\n    <h3>Genesis Chapters<\/h3>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen01\">1<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen02\">2<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen03\">3<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen04\">4<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen05\">5<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen06\">6<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen07\">7<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen08\">8<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen09\">9<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen10\">10<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen11\">11<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen12\">12<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen13\">13<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen14\">14<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen15\">15<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen16\">16<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen17\">17<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen18\">18<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen19\">19<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen20\">20<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen21\">21<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen22\">22<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen23\">23<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen24\">24<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen25\">25<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen26\">26<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen27\">27<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen28\">28<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen29\">29<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen30\">30<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen31\">31<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen32\">32<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen33\">33<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen34\">34<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen35\">35<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen36\">36<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen37\">37<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen38\">38<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen39\">39<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen40\">40<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen41\">41<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen42\">42<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen43\">43<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen44\">44<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen45\">45<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen46\">46<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen47\">47<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen48\">48<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen49\">49<\/a>\r\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/gen50\">50<\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 1\u00a0And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2\u00a0And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3\u00a0Sojourn 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\u00a0And 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\u00a0Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. 6\u00a0And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: 7\u00a0And 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\u00a0And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. 9\u00a0And Abimelech 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\u00a0And Abimelech 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\u00a0And Abimelech&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[90],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-genesis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2877,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/12tribes.net\/bible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}