Genesis 26:16

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Exod 1:9 : 9 He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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

  • Gen 26:17-20
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    17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

    18Isaac 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. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

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

    20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

  • Gen 26:24-28
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    24Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."

    25He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

    26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

    27Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

    28They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,

  • Gen 26:1-2
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    1There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

    2Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

  • Gen 26:6
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    6Isaac lived in Gerar.

  • Gen 26:8-13
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    8It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

    9Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

    10Abimelech 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 on us!"

    11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."

    12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

    13The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

  • Gen 20:15
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    15Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

  • Gen 26:31-32
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    31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

    32It happened 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."

  • Gen 21:22
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    22It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

  • Gen 20:9-11
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    9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"

    10Abimelech said to Abraham, "What did you see, that you have done this thing?"

    11Abraham said, "Because I thought, 'Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife's sake.'

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    25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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    9Isn't the whole land before you? Please separate yourself from me. If you go to the left hand, then I will go to the right. Or if you go to the right hand, then I will go to the left."

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    9He said to his people, "Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

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    12Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

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    6"Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. Bury your dead in the best of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb. Bury your dead."