Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:4
I will make thy seed - as the stars of heaven - A promise often repeated to Abraham, and which has been most amply fulfilled both in its literal and spiritual sense. read more
Genesis 26:1-6 Kjv
Adam Clarke
Adam Clarke
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
John Calvin
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
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:2
Verse 2 2.And the Lord appeared unto him. I do not doubt but a reason is here given why Isaac rather went to the country of Gerar than to Egypt, which perhaps would have been more convenient for him; but Moses teaches that he was withheld by a heavenly oracle, so that a free choice was not left him. It may here be asked, why does the Lord prohibit Isaac from going to Egypt, whither he had suffered his father to go? Although Moses does not give the reason, yet we may be allowed to conjecture... read more
John Calvin
John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:5
Verse 5 5.Because that Abraham obeyed my voice. Moses does not mean that Abraham’s obedience was the reason why the promise of God was confirmed and ratified to him; but from what has been said before, (Genesis 22:18,) where we have a similar expression, we learn, that what God freely bestows upon the faithful is sometimes, beyond their desert, ascribed to themselves; that they, knowing their intention to be approved by the Lord, may the more ardently addict and devote themselves entirely to... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 26:1
And there was a famine in the land (of Canaan), beside the first ( i . e . first recorded) famine that was in the days of Abraham —at least a century previous ( vide Genesis 12:10 ). And Isaac —who, since his father's death, had been residing at Hagar's well in the wilderness of Beersheba ( Genesis 25:11 )— went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar (cf. Genesis 20:1 , Genesis 20:2 ; Genesis 21:22 ). Seventy or eighty years having elapsed since... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 26:1-6
A good man's perplexity. I. THE CONTEMPLATED JOURNEY . 1. Its projected destinations . Egypt. Renowned for fertility, the land of the Pharaohs was yet no proper resort for the son of Abraham, the heir of Canaan, and the friend of God. It was outside the land of promise; it had been to Abraham a scene of peril, and it was not a place to which he was directed to turn. Considerations such as these should have operated to deter Isaac from even entertaining the idea of a... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 26:1-35
Line upon line, in God's teaching. Isaac, like his father, has his time of sojourn among the Philistines. The events of his intercourse with the Abimelech of his day resemble those of the former patriarch, though there are differences which show that the recurrence is historical . I. GOD REPEATS HIS LESSONS that they may make the deeper impression. The intention of the record is to preserve a certain line of Divine guidance . Isaac trod in the footsteps of Abraham. We have... read more
Spence, H. D. M., etc.
The Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 26:2
And the Lord (Jehovah, i . e . the God of the covenant and of the promise) appeared unto him,—only two Divine manifestations are mentioned as having been granted to the patriarch. Either the peaceful tenor of Isaac's life rendered more theophanies in his case unnecessary; or, if others were enjoyed by him, the brief space allotted by the historian to the record of his life may account for their omission from the narrative. Though commonly understood as having occurred in Gerar (Keil,... read more
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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:3
Sojourn in this land - In Gerar, whither he had gone, Genesis 26:1 , and where we find he settled, Genesis 26:6 , though the land of Canaan in general might be here intended. That there were serious and important reasons why Isaac should not go to Egypt, we may be fully assured, though they be not assigned here; it is probable that even Isaac himself was not informed why he should not go down to Egypt. I have already supposed that God saw trials in his way which he might not have been... read more