Genesis 26:1-7

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Genesis 26:5

HEREDITARY BLESSING‘I will bless thee … because that Abraham obeyed My voice.’ Genesis 26:3; Genesis 26:5 The child is blessed for the father’s sake. I. If I have a godly ancestry, then the covenant of the Lord is made with me. His love was not exhausted with the life and death of my parents; so profoundly did He care for them that His love descends for their sakes on my head. It would be hard indeed to tell how far it will descend, or when its influence will cease; it seems unchangeable as... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:1

‘And there was famine in the land beside the first famine that was on the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar.’ The writer knows of the extreme famine in the time of Abraham that drove him into Egypt (Genesis 12:10-20). Now the rains fail once more and another extreme famine arrives and this drives Isaac from where he is to Gerar. As a young man he had been acquainted with Gerar, although the Abimelech he knew then may have been an ancestor of the... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:2-5

‘And Yahweh appeared to him and said, “Do not go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of. Sojourn in this land and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and to your seed I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. And I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these lands. And in your seed will all the nations of the world be blessed, because Abraham obeyed my voice and... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Genesis 26:2-11

The First Theophany - Promise of Blessing and Prosperity to Him and to The World (Genesis 26:2-14 ). 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 26:1

Abimelech is not he mentioned Genesis 20:2, but most probably his son and successor, called by his father's name. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 26:2

To Egypt it seems Isaac intended to go, it being a very fruitful place, and being encouraged to do so by his father’s example upon the same occasion. But God saw good reasons to forbid Isaac to go thither, which it is needless to inquire, and not difficult to conjecture. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 26:3

Unto thee, and unto thy seed; to thee to enjoy for thy present comfort, and to them to possess as an inheritance. See Poole on "Genesis 13:15", see Poole on "Genesis 15:18". I will perform the oath, i.e. the promises confirmed by oath, Genesis 22:16, &c. read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Genesis 26:5

Here was a covenant made between God and Abraham; and as, if Abraham had broken the condition of walking before God required on his part, God had been discharged from the promise made on his part; so contrarily, because Abraham performed his condition, God engageth himself to perform his promise to him, and to his seed. But as that promise and covenant was made by God of mere grace, as is evident and confessed; so the mercies promised and performed to him and his are so great and vast, that it... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Genesis 26:1-5

CRITICAL NOTES.—Genesis 26:1. The first famine that was in the days of Abraham.] This happened nearly an hundred years before the present one. Abimelech. Means, “My father, the king.” This was probably a standing official name. Even in David’s time a king of this country is called Abimelech. (1 Samuel 21:10. Comp. with Psalms 34:0)—Genesis 26:5. Kept my charge.] Heb. “Kept my keeping,” i.e., My special commission.—MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Genesis 26:1-5THE COVENANT RENEWED TO ISAACI.... read more

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