Genesis 26:10 - Prayer Tents

26There was a famine in the land, as bad as the famine during the time of Abraham. And Isaac went down to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, in Gerar.H7458H776H905H7223H7458H3117H85H3327H3212H40H4428H6430H1642 2GOD appeared to him and said, "Don't go down to Egypt; stay where I tell you.H3068H7200H559H3381H4714H7931H776H559 3Stay here in this land and I'll be with you and bless you. I'm giving you and your children all these lands, fulfilling the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.H1481H776H1288H2233H5414H411H776H6965H7621H7650H85H1 4I'll make your descendants as many as the stars in the sky and give them all these lands. All the nations of the Earth will get a blessing for themselves through your descendants.H7235H2233H7235H3556H8064H5414H2233H411H776H2233H1471H776H1288 5And why? Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge—my commands, my guidelines, my teachings."H6118H85H8085H6963H8104H4931H4687H2708H8451 6So Isaac stayed put in Gerar.H3327H3427H1642 7The men of the place questioned him about his wife. He said, "She's my sister." He was afraid to say "She's my wife." He was thinking, "These men might kill me to get Rebekah, she's so beautiful."H582H4725H7592H802H559H269H3372H559H802H582H4725H2026H7259H2896H4758 8One day, after they had been there quite a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out his window and saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah.H748H3117H40H4428H6430H8259H1157H2474H7200H3327H6711H7259H802 9Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, "So, she's your wife. Why did you tell us 'She's my sister'?" Isaac said, "Because I thought I might get killed by someone who wanted her."H40H7121H3327H559H389H802H559H269H3327H559H559H4191 10Abimelech said, "But think of what you might have done to us! Given a little more time, one of the men might have slept with your wife; you would have been responsible for bringing guilt down on us."H40H559H6213H259H5971H4592H7901H802H935H817 11Then Abimelech gave orders to his people: "Anyone who so much as lays a hand on this man or his wife dies."H40H6680H5971H559H5060H376H802H4191H4191 12Isaac planted crops in that land and took in a huge harvest. GOD blessed him.H3327H2232H776H4672H8141H3967H8180H3068H1288 13The man got richer and richer by the day until he was very wealthy.H376H1431H3212H1980H1432H1431H3966H1431 14He accumulated flocks and herds and many, many servants, so much so that the Philistines began to envy him.H4735H6629H4735H1241H7227H5657H6430H7065 15They got back at him by throwing dirt and debris into all the wells that his father's servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham, clogging up all the wells.H875H1H5650H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H4390H6083 16Finally, Abimelech told Isaac: "Leave. You've become far too big for us."H40H559H3327H3212H3966H6105 17So Isaac left. He camped in the valley of Gerar and settled down there.H3327H3212H2583H5158H1642H3427H8033 18Isaac dug again the wells which were dug in the days of his father Abraham but had been clogged up by the Philistines after Abraham's death. And he renamed them, using the original names his father had given them.H3327H2658H7725H875H4325H2658H3117H85H1H6430H5640H310H4194H85H7121H8034H8034H834H1H7121 19One day, as Isaac's servants were digging in the valley, they came on a well of spring water.H3327H5650H2658H5158H4672H875H2416H4325 20The shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's shepherds, claiming, "This water is ours." So Isaac named the well Esek (Quarrel) because they quarreled over it.H7462H1642H7378H3327H7462H559H4325H7121H8034H875H6230H6229 21They dug another well and there was a difference over that one also, so he named it Sitnah (Accusation).H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H7856 22He went on from there and dug yet another well. But there was no fighting over this one so he named it Rehoboth (Wide-Open Spaces), saying, "Now GOD has given us plenty of space to spread out in the land."H6275H2658H312H875H7378H7121H8034H7344H559H6258H3068H7337H6509H776 23From there he went up to Beersheba.H5927H884 24That very night GOD appeared to him and said, I am the God of Abraham your father; don't fear a thing because I'm with you. I'll bless you and make your children flourish because of Abraham my servant.H3068H7200H3915H559H430H85H1H3372H854H1288H7235H2233H5650H85 25Isaac built an altar there and prayed, calling on GOD by name. He pitched his tent and his servants started digging another well.H1129H4196H7121H8034H3068H5186H168H3327H5650H3738H875 26Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his advisor and Phicol the head of his troops.H40H1980H1642H276H4828H6369H8269H6635 27Isaac asked them, "Why did you come to me? You hate me; you threw me out of your country."H3327H559H4069H935H8130H7971 28They said, "We've realized that GOD is on your side. We'd like to make a deal between us—a covenantH559H7200H7200H3068H559H423H996H996H3772H1285 29that we maintain friendly relations. We haven't bothered you in the past; we treated you kindly and let you leave us in peace. So—GOD's blessing be with you!"H6213H7451H5060H6213H7535H2896H7971H7965H6258H1288H3068 30Isaac laid out a feast and they ate and drank together.H6213H4960H398H8354 31Early in the morning they exchanged oaths. Then Isaac said good-bye and they parted as friends.H7925H1242H7650H376H251H3327H7971H3212H7965 32Later that same day, Isaac's servants came to him with news about the well they had been digging, "We've struck water!"H3117H3327H5650H935H5046H182H875H2658H559H4672H4325 33Isaac named the well Sheba (Oath), and that's the name of the city, Beersheba (Oath-Well), to this day.H7121H7656H8034H5892H884H3117 34When Esau was forty years old he married Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.H6215H705H8141H1121H3947H802H3067H1323H882H2850H1315H1323H356H2850 35They turned out to be thorns in the sides of Isaac and Rebekah.H4786H7307H3327H7259