Genesis 26:27 - Exposition

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore — מַדּוּעַ , contr, from מָה יָדוּעַ , what is taught?— for what reason (cf. τί μαθών) — come ye to me, seeing (literally, and) ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? While animadverting to the personal hostility to which he had been subjected, Isaac says nothing about the wells of which he had been deprived: a second point of difference between this and the preceding narrative of Abraham's covenant with the Philistine king.