--- title: Genesis 26 slug: kjv/genesis-26 createdAt: 2024-07-21T02:31:18.616Z --- **1 **And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. **2 **And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: **3 **Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; **4 **And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; **5 **Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. **6 **And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: **7 **And the men of the place asked *him* of his wife; and he said, She *is* my sister: for he feared to say, *She is* my wife; lest, *said he*, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she *was* fair to look upon. **8 **And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac *was* sporting with Rebekah his wife. **9 **And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she *is* thy wife: and how saidst thou, She *is* my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. **10 **And Abimelech said, What *is* this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. **11 **And Abimelech charged all *his* people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. **12 **Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. **13 **And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: **14 **For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. **15 **For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. **16 **And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. **17 **And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. **18 **And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. **19 **And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. **20 **And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water *is* ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him. **21 **And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. **22 **And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. **23 **And he went up from thence to Beersheba. **24 **And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I *am* the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I *am* with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. **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. **26 **Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. **27 **And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? **28 **And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, *even* betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; **29 **That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou *art* now the blessed of the LORD. **30 **And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. **31 **And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. **32 **And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. **33 **And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city *is* Beersheba unto this day. **34 **And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: **35 **Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.