Genesis 26:8
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.
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- Judg 5:28 : 28 Through the window she looked; Sisera’s mother cried out through the lattice:‘Why is his chariot so slow to return? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariot-horses delayed?’
- Prov 5:18-19 : 18 May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife you married in your youth– 19 a loving doe, a graceful deer; may her breasts satisfy you at all times, may you be captivated by her love always.
- Prov 7:6 : 6 For at the window of my house through my window lattice I looked out
- Eccl 9:9 : 9 Enjoy life with your beloved wife during all the days of your fleeting life that God has given you on earth during all your fleeting days; for that is your reward in life and in your burdensome work on earth.
- Song 2:9 : 9 My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the window, peering through the lattice.
- Isa 62:5 : 5 As a young man marries a young woman, so your sons will marry you. As a bridegroom rejoices over a bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
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- Gen 26:9-124 verses81%
9So 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.”
10Then 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!”
11So Abimelech commanded all the people,“Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
12When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.
- Gen 26:6-72 verses80%
6So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7When 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.”
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1Isaac 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.
- Gen 24:62-676 verses73%
62Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
63He went out to relax in the field in the early evening. Then he looked up and saw that there were camels approaching.
64Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac. She got down from her camel
65and asked Abraham’s servant,“Who is that man walking in the field toward us?”“That is my master,” the servant replied. So she took her veil and covered herself.
66The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.
67Then Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent. He took her as his wife and loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
- Gen 20:2-32 verses72%
2Abraham said about his wife Sarah,“She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
3But God appeared to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him,“You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.”
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35They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.
- Gen 25:19-213 verses72%
19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.
20When Isaac was forty years old, he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
21Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife because she was childless. The LORD answered his prayer, and his wife Rebekah became pregnant.
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10Then Abimelech asked Abraham,“What prompted you to do this thing?”
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26Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.
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15Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah(Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).
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22At 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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32So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.
- Gen 26:17-182 verses70%
17So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.
18Isaac 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.
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11As he approached Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai,“Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman.
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5Now Rebekah had been listening while Isaac spoke to his son Esau. When Esau went out to the open fields to hunt down some wild game and bring it back,
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14When Abram entered Egypt, the Egyptians saw that the woman was very beautiful.
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18For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.
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30When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say,“This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.
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10Not only that, but when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our ancestor Isaac–
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15So 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.