Genesis 26:17 - Exposition

And Isaac —perhaps not without remonstrance, but without offering resistance, as became a saint ( Matthew 5:5 ; Romans 12:17 , Romans 12:18 ; Hebrews 12:14 ; 1 Peter 3:9 )— departed thence ( i . e . from Gerar), and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, —a valley or nahal meant a low, flat region watered by a mountain stream. The Wady Gerar has been identified with the Joorf - el - Gerar , the rush or rapid of Gerar, three hours south-east of Gaza— and dwelt there .