Genesis 26:16

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then Abimelech said to Isaac,“Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”

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  • Exod 1:9 : 9 He said to his people,“Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

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  • 15 So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

  • Gen 26:17-20
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    17 So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.

    18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

    19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

    20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying,“The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

  • Gen 26:24-28
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    24 The LORD appeared to him that night and said,“I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

    25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

    26 Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

    27 Isaac asked them,“Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

    28 They replied,“We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us– between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

  • Gen 26:1-2
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    1 Isaac and Abimelech There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

    2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

  • 6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 26:8-13
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    8 After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

    9 So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said,“She is really your wife! Why did you say,‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied,“Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”

    10 Then Abimelech exclaimed,“What in the world have you done to us? One of the men nearly took your wife to bed, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

    11 So Abimelech commanded all the people,“Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

    12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.

    13 The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.

  • 15 Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”

  • Gen 26:31-32
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    31 Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

    32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug.“We’ve found water,” they reported.

  • 22 At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham,“God is with you in all that you do.

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    9 Abimelech summoned Abraham and said to him,“What have you done to us? What sin did I commit against you that would cause you to bring such great guilt on me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done!”

    10 Then Abimelech asked Abraham,“What prompted you to do this thing?”

    11 Abraham replied,“Because I thought,‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

  • 25 But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

  • 9 Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself now from me. If you go to the left, then I’ll go to the right, but if you go to the right, then I’ll go to the left.”

  • 9 He said to his people,“Look at the Israelite people, more numerous and stronger than we are!

  • 12 Then Esau said,“Let’s be on our way! I will go in front of you.”

  • 6 “Listen, sir, you are a mighty prince among us! You may bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will refuse you his tomb to prevent you from burying your dead.”