John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:1
Verse 1 1.And there was a famine. Moses relates that Isaac was tried by nearly the same kind of temptation as that through which his father Abraham had twice passed. I have before explained how severe and violent was this assault. The condition in which it was the will of God to place his servants, as strangers and pilgrims in the land which he had promised to give them, seemed sufficiently troublesome and hard; but it appears still more intolerable, that he scarcely suffered them to exist (if... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:5
Abraham obeyed my voice - מימרי meimeri , my Word. See Genesis 15:1 . My charge - משמרתי mishmarti , from שמר shamar , he kept, observed, etc., the ordinances or appointments of God. These were always of two kinds: Such as tended to promote moral improvement, the increase of piety, the improvement of the age, etc. And Such as were typical of the promised seed, and the salvation which was to come by him. For commandments, statutes, etc., the reader is particularly... read more