English Bible
Genesis 26
Big screen- 1And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
- 2And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell you of:
- 3Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for unto you, and unto your seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore unto Abraham your father;
- 4And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
- 5Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
- 6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
- 7And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.
- 8And it came to pass, 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 sporting with Rebekah his wife.
- 9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, certainly she is your wife; and how said you, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.
- 10And Abimelech said, What is this you have done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with your wife, and you should have brought guiltiness upon us.
- 11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
- 12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
- 13And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:
- 14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
- 15For all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
- 16And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.
- 17And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- 18And Isaac 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: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- 19And Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- 20And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
- 21And they dug another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
- 22And he removed from thence, and dug another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
- 23And he went up from thence to Beersheba.
- 24And the LORD appeared unto 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 seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
- 25And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dug a well.
- 26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
- 27And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come all of you to me, seeing all of you hate me, and have sent me away from you?
- 28And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;
- 29That you will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have done unto you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace: you are now the blessed of the LORD.
- 30And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.
- 31And they rose up early in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
- 32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said unto him, We have found water.
- 33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
- 34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
- 35Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.