Genesis 26

26Now there was a famine in the land--besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time--and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.H7458H776H905H7223H7458H3117H85H3327H3212H40H4428H6430H16422The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.H3068H7200H559H3381H4714H7931H776H5593Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.H1481H776H1288H2233H5414H411H776H6965H7621H7650H85H14I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,H7235H2233H7235H3556H8064H5414H2233H411H776H2233H1471H776H12885because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."H6118H85H8085H6963H8104H4931H4687H2708H84516So Isaac stayed in Gerar.H3327H3427H16427When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful."H582H4725H7592H802H559H269H3372H559H802H582H4725H2026H7259H2896H47588When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.H748H3117H40H4428H6430H8259H1157H2474H7200H3327H6711H7259H8029So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, "She is really your wife! Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac answered him, "Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her."H40H7121H3327H559H389H802H559H269H3327H559H559H419110Then Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us."H40H559H6213H259H5971H4592H7901H802H935H81711So Abimelech gave orders to all the people: "Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."H40H6680H5971H559H5060H376H802H4191H419112Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.H3327H2232H776H4672H8141H3967H8180H3068H128813The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.H376H1431H3212H1980H1432H1431H3966H143114He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.H4735H6629H4735H1241H7227H5657H6430H706515So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.H875H1H5650H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H4390H608316Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us."H40H559H3327H3212H3966H610517So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.H3327H3212H2583H5158H1642H3427H803318Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.H3327H2658H7725H875H4325H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H310H4194H85H7121H8034H8034H834H1H712119Isaac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.H3327H5650H2658H5158H4672H875H2416H432520But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.H7462H1642H7378H3327H7462H559H4325H7121H8034H875H6230H622921Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H785622He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, "Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land."H6275H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H7344H559H6258H3068H7337H6509H77623From there he went up to Beersheba.H5927H88424That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."H3068H7200H3915H559H430H85H1H3372H854H1288H7235H2233H5650H8525Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.H1129H4196H7121H8034H3068H5186H168H3327H5650H3738H87526Meanwhile, Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces.H40H1980H1642H276H4828H6369H8269H663527Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"H3327H559H4069H935H8130H797128They answered, "We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, 'There ought to be a sworn agreement between us'--between us and you. Let us make a treaty with youH559H7200H7200H3068H559H423H996H996H3772H128529that you will do us no harm, just as we did not molest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD."H6213H7451H5060H6213H7535H2896H7971H7965H6258H1288H306830Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.H6213H4960H398H835431Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.H7925H1242H7650H376H251H3327H7971H3212H796532That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, "We've found water!"H3117H3327H5650H935H5046H182H875H2658H559H4672H432533He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.H7121H7656H8034H5892H884H311734When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.H6215H705H8141H1121H3947H802H3067H1323H882H2850H1315H1323H356H285035They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.H4786H7307H3327H7259