There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. Gen 12:10Gen 25:11Gen 21:22-32Gen 20:1-2 The LORD appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. Gen 12:7Gen 12:1Gen 17:1Gen 18:1Psa 37:3Gen 18:10-20 Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. Gen 28:15Psa 105:9Gen 22:16-18Gen 12:7Gen 13:15Gen 17:8Gen 20:1Heb 11:9 I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, Act 3:25Gen 12:2-3Gen 15:5Gal 3:8Gen 13:16Gen 22:17-18Exo 32:13Gal 3:16 because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” Mat 7:24Gen 22:18Gen 22:16Jas 2:21Psa 112:1-2Heb 11:8Gal 5:6Psa 128:1-6
Isaac lived in Gerar. Gen 20:1 The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.” Pro 29:25Gen 12:13Gen 20:2Gen 24:16Gen 20:12-13Col 3:9Eph 5:25Mat 10:28 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. Isa 62:5Jdg 5:28Pro 5:18-19Pro 7:6Sng 2:9Ecc 9:9 Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?”
Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”
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 on us!” Gen 12:18-19Gen 20:9-10
Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” Psa 105:15Gen 20:6Pro 6:29Zec 2:8
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him. Mrk 4:8Gen 26:32Co 9:10-11Gen 24:1Gen 24:35Zec 8:12Ecc 11:6Gal 6:7-8 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. Pro 10:22Psa 112:3Gen 24:35 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. Gen 37:111Sa 18:9Ecc 4:4Gen 12:16Gen 13:2Job 1:3Job 42:12Job 5:2 Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. Gen 21:30Gen 21:25 Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.” Exo 1:9
Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
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. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them. Zec 13:2Gen 21:31Hos 2:17Num 32:38Psa 16:4 Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing 1 water. Jhn 4:10-11Jhn 7:38Sng 4:15 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, 2 because they contended with him. Gen 21:25 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah. 3 Ezr 4:6 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. 4 He said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.” Gen 17:6Exo 1:7Psa 118:5Gen 28:3Gen 41:52Psa 18:19Psa 4:1
He went up from there to Beersheba. Gen 21:31Gen 46:1Jdg 20:1 The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.” Gen 15:1Exo 3:6Gen 17:7Act 7:32Gen 24:12Isa 43:1-2Rev 1:17Gen 13:16
He built an altar there, and called on the LORD’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well. Gen 13:18Psa 116:17Gen 12:7-8Exo 17:15Gen 13:4Gen 22:9Gen 33:20Gen 35:1
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. Gen 20:3Gen 21:22-32 Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” Gen 26:16Jdg 11:7Act 7:14Act 7:27Act 7:35Act 7:9Gen 26:14Rev 3:9
They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you, Gen 21:22-23Gen 21:31-32Gen 39:5Isa 45:14Isa 61:9Jos 3:71Co 14:252Ch 1:1 that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of the LORD.” Gen 24:31Gen 21:22Gen 12:2Gen 22:17Psa 115:15Gen 26:11-12Gen 26:14-15
He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. Gen 19:3Heb 12:14Rom 12:18Gen 31:541Pe 4:9Gen 21:8 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 1Sa 20:16-171Sa 30:15Gen 21:31-32Gen 25:33Gen 31:44Heb 6:161Sa 14:241Sa 20:3 The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” Pro 10:4Gen 26:25Mat 7:7Pro 13:4Pro 2:4-5 He called it “Shibah”. 5 Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” 6 to this day. Gen 21:31Gen 26:28
When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. Gen 36:2Exo 34:16Gen 36:13Gen 24:3Gen 28:9Gen 36:51Co 7:2Heb 12:16 They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits. Gen 27:46Gen 28:8Gen 6:2