Genesis · Chapter 26

Genesis 26:23

¹And 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.²And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:³Sojourn 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;⁴And 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;⁵Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.⁶And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:⁷And 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.⁸And 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.⁹And 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.¹⁰And 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.¹¹And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.¹²Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.¹³And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:¹⁴For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.¹⁵For 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.¹⁶And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.¹⁷And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.¹⁸And 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.¹⁹And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.²⁰And 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.²¹And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.²²And 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.²³And he went up from thence to Beersheba.²⁴And 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.²⁵And 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.²⁶Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.²⁷And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?²⁸And 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;²⁹That 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.³⁰And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.³¹And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.³²And 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.³³And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.³⁴And 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:³⁵Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

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23	And he went up from thence to Beersheba.	From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,	And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.

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English	Hebrew	Say it	Strong's	Meaning
and he went up	וַיַּ֥עַל	vai-YA-'al	H5927G	to ascend: rise עָלָה (a.lah) : rise/go 1) to go up, ascend, climb 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go up, ascend 1a2) to meet, visit, follow, depart, withdraw, retreat 1a3) to go up, come up (of animals) 1a4) to spring up, grow, shoot forth (of vegetation) 1a5) to go up, go up over, rise (of natural phenomenon) 1a6) to come up (before God) 1a7) to go up, go up over, extend (of boundary) 1a8) to excel, be superior to 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be taken up, be brought up, be taken away 1b2) to take oneself away 1b3) to be exalted 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to bring up, cause to ascend or climb, cause to go up 1c2) to bring up, bring against, take away …
from there	מִשָּׁ֖ם	mi-SHAM	H8033G	there שָׁם (sham) 1) there, thither 1a) there 1b) thither (after verbs of motion) 1c) from there, thence 1d) then (as an adverb of time) Aramaic equivalent: tam.mah (תַּמָּה "there" H8536)
Beer	בְּאֵ֥ר	be-'ER	H0884	Beersheba בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע (be.er she.va) § Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath" a city at the south edge of Israel
Sheba	שָֽׁבַע׃	SHA-va'	H0884	Beersheba בְּאֵר שֶׁ֫בַע (be.er she.va) § Beer-sheba = "well of the sevenfold oath" a city at the south edge of Israel

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