Genesis 26:10 - Prayer Tents

Isaac Lives at Gerar

26There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.H7458H776H905H7223H7458H3117H85H3327H3212H40H4428H6430H1642

2The LORD had appeared to Isaac and had said, "Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land, where I tell you to stay.H3068H7200H559H3381H4714H7931H776H559

3Live here, and I will be with you and bless you. I am going to give all this territory to you and to your descendants. I will keep the promise I made to your father Abraham.H1481H776H1288H2233H5414H411H776H6965H7621H7650H85H1

4I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give them all this territory. All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants.H7235H2233H7235H3556H8064H5414H2233H411H776H2233H1471H776H1288

5I will bless you, because Abraham obeyed me and kept all my laws and commands."H6118H85H8085H6963H8104H4931H4687H2708H8451

6So Isaac lived at Gerar.H3327H3427H1642

7When the men there asked about his wife, he said that she was his sister. He would not admit that she was his wife, because he was afraid that the men there would kill him to get Rebecca, who was very beautiful.H582H4725H7592H802H559H269H3372H559H802H582H4725H2026H7259H2896H4758

8When Isaac had been there for some time, King Abimelech looked down from his window and saw Isaac and Rebecca making love.H748H3117H40H4428H6430H8259H1157H2474H7200H3327H6711H7259H802

9Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So she is your wife! Why did you say she was your sister?" He answered, "I thought I would be killed if I said she was my wife."H40H7121H3327H559H389H802H559H269H3327H559H559H4191

10"What have you done to us?" Abimelech said. "One of my men might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have been responsible for our guilt."H40H559H6213H259H5971H4592H7901H802H935H817

11Abimelech warned all the people: "Anyone who mistreats this man or his wife will be put to death."H40H6680H5971H559H5060H376H802H4191H4191

12Isaac sowed crops in that land, and that year he harvested a hundred times as much as he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.H3327H2232H776H4672H8141H3967H8180H3068H1288

13He continued to prosper and became a very rich man.H376H1431H3212H1980H1432H1431H3966H1431

14Because he had many herds of sheep and cattle and many servants, the Philistines were jealous of him.H4735H6629H4735H1241H7227H5657H6430H7065

15So they filled in all the wells which the servants of his father Abraham had dug while Abraham was alive.H875H1H5650H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H4390H6083

16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave our country. You have become more powerful than we are."H40H559H3327H3212H3966H6105

17So Isaac left and set up his camp in Gerar Valley, where he stayed for some time.H3327H3212H2583H5158H1642H3427H8033

18He dug once again the wells which had been dug during the time of Abraham and which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death. Isaac gave the wells the same names that his father had given them.H3327H2658H7725H875H4325H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H310H4194H85H7121H8034H8034H834H1H7121

19Isaac's servants dug a well in the valley and found water.H3327H5650H2658H5158H4672H875H2416H4325

20The shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's shepherds and said, "This water belongs to us." So Isaac named the well "Quarrel."H7462H1642H7378H3327H7462H559H4325H7121H8034H875H6230H6229

21Isaac's servants dug another well, and there was a quarrel about that one also, so he named it "Enmity."H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H7856

22He moved away from there and dug another well. There was no dispute about this one, so he named it "Freedom." He said, "Now the LORD has given us freedom to live in the land, and we will be prosperous here."H6275H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H7344H559H6258H3068H7337H6509H776

23Isaac left and went to Beersheba.H5927H884

24That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid; I am with you. I will bless you and give you many descendants because of my promise to my servant Abraham."H3068H7200H3915H559H430H85H1H3372H854H1288H7235H2233H5650H85

25Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. Then he set up his camp there, and his servants dug another well.H1129H4196H7121H8034H3068H5186H168H3327H5650H3738H875

The Agreement between Isaac and Abimelech

26Abimelech came from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army to see Isaac.H40H1980H1642H276H4828H6369H8269H6635

27So Isaac asked, "Why have you now come to see me, when you were so unfriendly to me before and made me leave your country?"H3327H559H4069H935H8130H7971

28They answered, "Now we know that the LORD is with you, and we think that there should be a solemn agreement between us. We want you to promiseH559H7200H7200H3068H559H423H996H996H3772H1285

29that you will not harm us, just as we did not harm you. We were kind to you and let you go peacefully. Now it is clear that the LORD has blessed you."H6213H7451H5060H6213H7535H2896H7971H7965H6258H1288H3068

30Isaac prepared a feast for them, and they ate and drank.H6213H4960H398H8354

31Early next morning each man made his promise and sealed it with a vow. Isaac said good-bye to them, and they parted as friends.H7925H1242H7650H376H251H3327H7971H3212H7965

32On that day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well which they had dug. They said, "We have found water."H3117H3327H5650H935H5046H182H875H2658H559H4672H4325

33He named the well "Vow." That is how the city of Beersheba got its name.H7121H7656H8034H5892H884H3117

Esau’s Foreign Wives

34When Esau was forty years old, he married two Hittites, Judith the daughter of Beeri, and Basemath the daughter of Elon.H6215H705H8141H1121H3947H802H3067H1323H882H2850H1315H1323H356H2850

35They made life miserable for Isaac and Rebecca.H4786H7307H3327H7259