Genesis 26:6

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So Isaac settled in Gerar.

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  • Gen 20:1 : 1 Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur, and he lived temporarily in Gerar.

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  • Gen 26:15-20
    6 verses
    87%

    15The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during the days of Abraham his father, filling them with dirt.

    16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us, for you have become much mightier than we are."

    17So Isaac departed from there, pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.

    18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; he gave them the same names his father had given them.

    19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there.

    20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

  • Gen 26:1-2
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    82%

    1Now there was a famine in the land, apart from the earlier famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

    2The LORD appeared to him and said, "Do not go down to Egypt. Stay in the land that I will show you.

  • Gen 20:1-2
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    1Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur, and he lived temporarily in Gerar.

    2Abraham said about Sarah his wife, 'She is my sister,' and Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for her and took her.

  • Gen 26:7-10
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    7When the people of that place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "The men of this place might kill me because of Rebekah, for she is beautiful."

    8After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah, his wife.

    9So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "Surely, she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac replied, "Because I thought I might be killed on account of her."

    10Then Abimelech said, "What have you done to us? One of the people could have easily slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."

  • Gen 24:62
    76%

    62Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

  • Gen 24:66
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    66Then the servant recounted to Isaac everything he had done.

  • Gen 26:25
    74%

    25So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

  • Gen 26:12-13
    2 verses
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    12Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that same year he reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

    13The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.

  • Gen 35:27
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    27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 25:19
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    19This is the account of the family line of Isaac, the son of Abraham: Abraham fathered Isaac.

  • Gen 26:5
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    5This is because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My instructions.

  • Gen 26:27
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    27Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

  • Gen 25:11
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    11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi.

  • Gen 21:34
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    34And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

  • Gen 24:4
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    4Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.

  • Gen 20:15
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    15And Abimelech said, 'My land is before you; settle wherever you please.'

  • Gen 20:13
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    13And when God caused me to wander from my father’s household, I said to her, “This is the kindness you can show to me: Everywhere we go, say about me, ‘He is my brother.’”