Genesis 26:6
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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- Gen 20:1 : 1 Abraham and Abimelech Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,
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- Gen 26:15-206 verses87%
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.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac,“Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”
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 26:1-22 verses82%
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.
- Gen 20:1-22 verses79%
1 Abraham and Abimelech Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,
2 Abraham said about his wife Sarah,“She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
- Gen 26:7-104 verses79%
7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied,“She is my sister.” He was afraid to say,“She is my wife,” for he thought to himself,“The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”
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!”
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62 Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
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66 The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.
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25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
- Gen 26:12-132 verses74%
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.
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27 So Jacob came back to his father Isaac in Mamre, to Kiriath Arba(that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
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19 Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.
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5 All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
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27 Isaac asked them,“Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”
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11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
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34 So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.
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4 You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac.”
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15 Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”
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13 When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her,‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me,“He is my brother.”’”