Genesis 26:25 NLT,NIV,ESV

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

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Genesis 26:1-35

CHAPTER 26Now there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. [And like father, like son,] Isaac went to Abimelech the king of the Philistines unto Gerar ( Genesis 26:1 ).Now, it was to Abimelech that Abraham went, but certainly not the same one that Isaac went to because this is a hundred years later, more than a hundred years later. So Abimelech was sort of a title of the king of the Philistines. And so Isaac went unto the land of the PhilistinesAnd... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Genesis 26:1-35

Genesis 26:1. Abimelech was a name common to the kings of Gerar, and the Philistines were of African descent. Genesis 10:14. Genesis 26:2. The Lord appeared unto him. The infancy of the patriarchal family was the infancy of the church, which needed the fostering care of God. A removal to Egypt at this period might have been eventful to Isaac. The Egyptians might have seized his substance for the supply of bread. If Abimelech was jealous of Isaac, Pharaoh might have been so too.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 26:17-33

Genesis 26:17-33Isaac digged again the wells of waterIsaac’s wellsThese four names are the names (Genesis 26:20-22; Genesis 26:33) of four wells of springing water, dug in a valley, to feed families and flocks.“Esek” means Strife; “Sitnah,” Hatred; “Rehoboth,” Room; “Shebah,” Oath. Have you not been at them all? I. When you began life you found people trying to put you down by saying that the well was theirs, and that you were crowding yourself upon their ground. If they did not try to put you... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Genesis 26:23-25

Genesis 26:23-25Fear not, for I am with theeLessons1.The return from exilement to their own, God giveth to His sojourners as He pleaseth. 2. Beer-sheba is is more desirable to Isaac than Gerar. The place by covenant allotted, than the place envied by others (Genesis 26:23). 3. God’s gracious appearance unto souls is usually in the time of their hardships, and where He calls them. 4. God’s special care of His in times of persecution from men, is to keep them from fear. 5. God’s relation to... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 26:25

Gen 26:25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well. Ver. 25. And called upon the name of the Lord. ] That had made room for him; and now, by his presence and promise, comforted him. Let the streams of God’s bounty lead us, as the watercourse doth, either to the spring upward, or downward to the main ocean, to the source and fountain whence they flow. Let God taste of the fruit of his own planting.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Genesis 26:25

builded: Genesis 8:20, Genesis 12:7, Genesis 13:18, Genesis 22:9, Genesis 33:20, Genesis 35:1, Exodus 17:15 called: Psalms 116:17 Reciprocal: Genesis 21:33 - called Genesis 26:32 - We have Genesis 46:1 - unto Exodus 18:12 - took read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:25

25. Altar… tent… well Mark the order; first the altar, God’s worship before all else; next his tent, and then the well . read more