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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 26 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/26.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/26-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Genesis 26</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/25.htm" title="Genesis 25">◄</a> Genesis 26 <a href="../genesis/27.htm" title="Genesis 27">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/genesis/26.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">God’s Promise to Isaac</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; dwell in the land of which I shall tell you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and will give to your offspring all these lands. And in your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”</p> <p class="heading">Isaac and Abimelech</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Isaac settled in Gerar. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew may suggest an intimate relationship">a</a></sup></span> Rebekah his wife. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So Abimelech called Isaac and said, “Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I thought, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> blessed him, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of spring water, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Esek means contention">b</a></sup></span> because they contended with him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also, so he called its name Sitnah.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Sitnah means enmity">c</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth,<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Rehoboth means broad places, or room">d</a></sup></span> saying, “For now the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>From there he went up to Beersheba. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>They said, “We see plainly that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>In the morning they rose early and exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He called it Shibah;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Shibah sounds like the Hebrew for oath">e</a></sup></span> therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/26-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>and they made life bitter<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew they were bitterness of spirit">f</a></sup></span> for Isaac and Rebekah.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Hebrew may suggest an intimate relationship<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">20</span> <i class="catch-word">Esek</i> means <i>contention</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">21</span> <i class="catch-word">Sitnah</i> means <i>enmity</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> <i class="catch-word">Rehoboth</i> means <i>broad places</i>, or <i>room</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">e</span> <span class="fnverse">33</span> <i class="catch-word">Shibah</i> sounds like the Hebrew for <i>oath</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">f</span> <span class="fnverse">35</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">they</span> were bitterness of spirit</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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