Genesis 26:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

And 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.

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  • Judg 5:28 : 28 The mother of Sisera looked out of a window, and cried through the lattice, 'Why is his chariot so long in coming? why do the wheels of his chariots delay?'
  • Prov 5:18-19 : 18 Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth. 19 Let her be as the loving deer and graceful doe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be ravished always with her love.
  • Prov 7:6 : 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice,
  • Eccl 9:9 : 9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which He has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity: for that is your portion in this life and in your labor which you take under the sun.
  • Song 2:9 : 9 My beloved is like a gazelle or a young deer. Behold, he stands behind our wall, he looks forth at the windows, showing himself through the lattice.
  • Isa 62:5 : 5 For as a young man marries a virgin, so shall your sons marry you: and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.

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  • Gen 26:9-12
    4 verses
    81%

    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.

    10And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? one of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.

    11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

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

  • Gen 26:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6And Isaac lived in Gerar:

    7And the men of the place asked him about his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, he said, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was beautiful to look upon.

  • Gen 26:1
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    1And 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.

  • Gen 24:62-67
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    73%

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

    63And Isaac went out to meditate in the field in the evening; and he lifted his eyes and looked, and there, the camels were coming.

    64Then Rebekah lifted her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she dismounted from her camel;

    65for she had said to the servant, "Who is this man walking in the field to meet us?" The servant had said, "It is my master." Therefore she took a veil and covered herself.

    66And the servant told Isaac all the things that he had done.

    67Then Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and he took Rebekah and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

  • Gen 20:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

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

    3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

  • Gen 26:35
    72%

    35Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah.

  • Gen 25:19-21
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    19And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham begot Isaac.

    20Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian from Padan Aram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.

    21And Isaac entreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD was entreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

  • Gen 20:10
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    10And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?

  • Gen 26:26
    71%

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

  • Gen 24:15
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    15And it happened, before he had finished speaking, that behold, Rebekah came out with her pitcher on her shoulder. She was born to Bethuel, son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother.

  • Gen 21:22
    70%

    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.

  • Gen 21:32
    70%

    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.

  • Gen 26:17-18
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    70%

    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.

  • Gen 12:11
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    11And it came to pass, when he was about to enter Egypt, that he said to Sarai his wife, Behold now, I know that you are a beautiful woman to look upon:

  • Gen 27:5
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    5And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it.

  • Gen 12:14
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    14And it came to pass, that, when Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very beautiful.

  • Gen 20:18
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    18For the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 24:30
    69%

    30So it came to pass, when he saw the nose ring, and the bracelets on his sister's wrists, and when he heard the words of his sister Rebekah, saying, "Thus the man spoke to me," that he went to the man. And there he stood by the camels at the well.

  • Rom 9:10
    69%

    10And not only this; but Rebecca also had conceived by one man, even by our father Isaac;

  • Gen 26:15
    69%

    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.