Genesis 26:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.

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  • Gen 26:6
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    6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;

  • Gen 26:1-2
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    1 Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

    2 And the Lord came to him in a vision and said, Do not go down to Egypt; keep in the land of which I will give you knowledge:

  • Gen 20:1
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    1 And Abraham went on his way from there to the land of the South, and was living between Kadesh and Shur, in Gerar.

  • Gen 26:23-27
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    23 And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

    24 That night the Lord came to him in a vision, and said, I am the God of your father Abraham: have no fear for I am with you, blessing you, and your seed will be increased because of my servant Abraham.

    25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

    26 And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.

    27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?

  • Gen 24:62
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    62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

  • Gen 26:15-16
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    15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.

    16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.

  • Gen 26:18-21
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    18 And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

    19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.

    20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.

    21 Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

  • Gen 35:27
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    27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

  • Gen 25:11
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    11 Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son.

  • Gen 21:34
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    34 And Abraham went on living in the land of the Philistines as in a strange country.

  • Gen 28:10
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    10 So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.

  • Gen 26:31-32
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    31 And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.

    32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

  • Gen 13:18
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    18 And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.

  • Gen 26:12
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    12 Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.

  • Num 21:12
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    12 And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.

  • Gen 22:19
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    19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

  • Gen 25:19
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    19 Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:

  • Gen 26:8
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    8 And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.

  • Gen 46:1
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    1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

  • Gen 21:32
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    32 So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

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    8 And moving on from there to the mountain on the east of Beth-el, he put up his tent, having Beth-el on the west and Ai on the east: and there he made an altar and gave worship to the name of the Lord.

  • Gen 20:15
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    15 And Abimelech said, See, all my land is before you; take whatever place seems good to you.