Genèse 26:20, Genèse 26:21 BDS

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:18-25

18-25 Isaac met with much opposition in digging wells. Two were called Contention and Hatred. See the nature of worldly things; they make quarrels, and are occasions of strife; and what is often the lot of the most quiet and peaceable; those who avoid striving, yet cannot avoid being striven with. And what a mercy it is to have plenty of water; to have it without striving for it! The more common this mercy is, the more reason to be thankful for it. At length Isaac digged a well, for which they... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Genesis 26:17-25

The Enmity of the Philistines v. 17. And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. He left the city of Gerar and the domain of the Philistines in the narrower sense, putting up his encampment farther to the west, in the undulating country toward the mountains. v. 18. And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham, his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham, thus disregarding... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Genesis 26:1-22

THIRD SECTIONIsaac in the region of Abimelech at Gerar. The manifestation of God, and confirmed promise. His imitation of the maxim of his father. The exposure of Rebekah. The living figure of a richly blessed, patient endurance Genesis 26:1-221And there was [again] a famine in the land, besides the first [previous] 1famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2And the Lord [Jehovah] appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis 26:12-25

Genesis THE FIRST APOSTLE OF PEACE AT ANY PRICE Gen_26:12 - Gen_26:25 . The salient feature of Isaac’s life is that it has no salient features. He lived out his hundred and eighty years in quiet, with little to make history. Few details of his story are given, and some of these are not very creditable. He seems never to have wandered far from the neighbourhood of Beersheba. These quiet, rolling stretches of thinly peopled land contented him, and gave pasture for his flocks, as well as... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Genesis 26:18-35

Isaac’s Wells and Covenant Genesis 26:18-35 It is interesting to follow Isaac in his well-digging. Let us also dig wells and set streams flowing, which will bless men long after we have gone home to heaven. The first well was Esek-strife . The second, Sitnah-hatred . The third, Rehoboth-room . Thus is human life, too often, till it ends with Sheba-oath or covenant . But even the outward repose to which life may attain, as the result of the struggles of earlier life, may be interrupted... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Genesis 26:1-35

We have here the account of the first direct divine communication of Jehovah to Isaac. It came in a time of difficulty such as that which had caused his father to go down into Egypt. Warned against repeating that folly, he was thus saved from making his father's mistake. Strangely enough, however, he repeated the folly of his father in Gerar in connection with Abimelech. The story reminds us that there is no richer inheritance into which a man can enter than a godly parentage, but that, after... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:12-33

Isaac and Abimelech - a Story of Wells (Genesis 26:12-33 ). Genesis 26:12 ‘And Isaac sowed in that land and found in that same year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. And the man became great (in riches) and grew more and more until he was very wealthy. And he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds and a large household, and the Philistines envied him.’ Isaac was now settled in Gerar and the famine had long passed. Good relations had been established with the local king and... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:1-35

Genesis 26. Isaac and the Philistines.— Apart from Genesis 26:34 f. this chapter belongs to J. The original has been expanded in Genesis 26:1-Joshua :, and Genesis 26:15; Genesis 26:18 are harmonistic insertions. Apart from Genesis 26:12-Esther : the incidents are parallel to incidents recorded of Abraham. On the relation to the earlier adventures of Sarah in Egypt and Gerar, see Genesis 26:20 *. The incident is misplaced; obviously it is earlier than the birth of Esau and Jacob. The dispute... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 26:20

The water is ours, because digged in our soil; which was no good argument, because he digged it by their consent or permission at his own charge, and for his own use. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 26:12-33

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 26:13. Went forward.] Heb. “Went or walked, going;” i.e., “Became increasingly greater.” The Heb. term for walk is frequently used in the sense of continued increase. Genesis 26:20. Strove.] Heb. “They oppressed him.”—Genesis 26:21. Strove for that also.] This is a different word from the former, and signifies contended. Situah. From the term Satan, meaning accusation. Genesis 26:22. Rehoboth.] Meaning space, enlargement.—Genesis 26:26. Ahuzzath.] Called here “one of his... read more