Gênesis 26

¹ And there was a famine in theIn the land of Canaan.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,God's providence always watches to direct the ways of his children.Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

³ Dwell in this lande, and I will be with thee, and will blesse thee: for to thee, and to thy seede I will giue all these countreys: and I will performe the othe which I sware vnto Abraham thy father.

⁴ Also I wil cause thy seede to multiply as the starres of heauen, and will giue vnto thy seede all these countreys: and in thy seede shall all the nanations of the earth be blessed,

⁵ Because that AbrahamHe commends Abraham's obedience, because Isaac should be even more ready to follow the same: for as God made this promise of his free mercy, so does the confirmation of it proceed from the same fountain.obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

⁶ So Izhak dwelt in Gerar.

⁷ And the men of the place asked [him] of his wife; and he said, She [is] my sister:By which we see that fear and distrust is found in the most faithful.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]Or showing some familiar sign of love, by which it might be known that she was his wife.sporting with Rebekah his wife.

⁹ Then Abimelech called Izhak, and sayde, Loe, shee is of a suertie thy wife, and why saydest thou, She is my sister? To whom Izhak answered, Because I thought this, It may be that I shall dye 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 broughtIn all ages men were persuaded that God's vengeance would come on adulterers.guiltiness upon us.

¹¹ Then Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man, or his wife, shal die the death.

¹² Afterwarde Izhak sowed in that lande, and founde in the same yeere an hundreth folde by estimation: and so the Lord blessed him.

¹³ And the man waxed mightie, and stil increased, till he was exceeding great,

¹⁴ For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the PhilistinesThe malicious always envy the graces of God in others.envied him.

¹⁵ In so much that the Philistims stopped and filled vp with earth all the welles, which his fathers seruantes digged in his father Abrahams time.

¹⁶ Then Abimelech sayde vnto Izhak, Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then wee a great deale.

¹⁷ And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in theThe Hebrew word signifies a flood, or valley, where water at any time runs.valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

¹⁸ And Izhak returning, digged the welles of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and hee gaue them the same names, which his father gaue them.

¹⁹ Izhaks seruantes then digged in the valley, and found there a well of liuing water.

²⁰ But the herdmen of Gerar did striue with Izhaks herdmen, saying, The water is ours: therefore called he the name of the wel Esek, because they were at strife with him.

²¹ Afterwarde they digged another well, and stroue for that also, and he called the name of it Sitnah.

²² Then he remoued thence, and digged an other well, for the which they stroue not: therefore called hee the name of it Rehoboth, and sayde, Because the Lorde hath nowe made vs roome, we shall increase vpon the earth.

²³ So he went vp thence to Beer-sheba.

²⁴ And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I [am] the GodGod assures Isaac against all fear by rehearsing the promise made to Abraham.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 anTo signify that he would serve no other God, but the God of his father Abraham.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 came Abimelech to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friendes, and Phichol the captaine of his armie.

²⁷ To whom Izhak sayd, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate mee and haue put mee away from you?

²⁸ Who answered, Wee sawe certainely that the Lorde was with thee, and wee thought thus, Let there be nowe an othe betweene vs, euen betweene vs and thee, and let vs make a couenant with thee.

²⁹ The Hebrews in swearing begin commonly with «If» and understand the rest, that is, that God will punish him who breaks the oath: here the wicked show that they are afraid lest that happen to them which they would do to others.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 Then hee made them a feast, and they dyd eate and drinke.

³¹ And they rose vp betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: then Izhak let them go, and they departed from him in peace.

³² And that same day Izhaks seruantes came and tolde him of a well, which they had digged, and said vnto him, We haue found water.

³³ So hee called it Shibah: therefore the name of the citie is called Beer-sheba vnto this day.

³⁴ Nowe when Esau was fourtie yeere olde, he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon an Hittite also.

³⁵ And they were a griefe of minde to Izhak and to Rebekah.