Genesis 26:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

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  • Gen 12:10 : 10 And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to stay there; for the famine was severe in the land.
  • Gen 20:1-2 : 1 And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar. 2 And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
  • Gen 21:22-32 : 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do. 23 Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away. 26 And Abimelech said, I do not know who has done this thing; neither did you tell me, nor did I hear of it until today. 27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant. 28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. 29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves? 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that they may be a witness that I have dug this well. 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they both swore an oath. 32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.
  • Gen 25:11 : 11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai Roi.

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    6And Isaac lived in Gerar:

  • Gen 26:15-20
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    15For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

    16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.

    17And Isaac departed from there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

    18And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug 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.

    19And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

    20And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they quarreled with him.

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    2And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land which I shall tell you of:

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    10And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to stay there; for the famine was severe in the land.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    25And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

    26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

    27And Isaac said to them, Why do you come to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?

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    1And Abraham journeyed from there toward the south country, and lived between Kadesh and Shur, and stayed in Gerar.

    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

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    1And the famine was severe in the land.

  • Gen 26:12-13
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    12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

    13And the man became great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

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    34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

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    8And it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

    9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, certainly she is your wife: and how did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

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    19And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.

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    62Now Isaac came from the way of the well Lahairoi, for he dwelt in the south.

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    5And the sons of Israel came to buy grain among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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    32Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

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    22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

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    3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

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    15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: live where it pleases you.

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    11Now there came a famine over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and great affliction; and our fathers found no sustenance.

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    11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac, and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai Roi.

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    32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.

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    13And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was very severe, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan languished because of the famine.