BIBLE VERSES 2

Genesis 26:2

The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.

Genesis 26:3

Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.

Genesis 26:4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed,

Genesis 26:5

because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.”

Genesis 26:6

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

Genesis 26:7

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

Genesis 26:8

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Genesis 26:9

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

Genesis 26:10

“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

Genesis 26:11

So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

Genesis 26:12

Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

Genesis 26:13

and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

Genesis 26:14

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 26:15

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Genesis 26:16

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

Genesis 26:17

So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

Genesis 26:18

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Genesis 26:19

Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

Genesis 26:20

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Genesis 26:21

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.