The Book of Genesis! verse by verse

[doc329]

Genesis 26:5 (KJV)
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

 

[barb754]

Genesis 26:6 (KJV)
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

 

[Glenda]

Gen 26:7 And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister. For he feared to say, My wife; lest the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful of form.

 

[allmyluv4Him]

Genesis 26:8 (NKJV)

Now it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Phillistines looked through a window, and saw, and there was Isaac, showing endearment to Rebekah his wife.

 

[Glenda]

Gen 26:9 And Abimelech called Isaac and said, Behold! She surely is your wife. And why did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her.

 

[doc329]

Genesis 26:10 (KJV)
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.

 

[barb754]

Genesis 26:11 (KJV)
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

 

[kelco]

Gen 26:12 Now Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

 

[doc329]

Genesis 26:13 (KJV)
And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

 

[Glenda]

Gen 26:14 And he had possession of flocks and possession of herds, and many servants. And the Philistines envied him.

 

[kelco]

Gen 26:15 Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up by filling them with earth.

 

[barb754]

Genesis 26:16 (KJV)
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

 

[allmyluv4Him]

Genesis 26:17 (NKJV)

Then Isaac departed from there and pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

 

[barb754]

Genesis 26:18 (KJV)
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.

 

[bill'swife]

Genesis 26:19 (KJV)
And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

 

[barb754]

Genesis 26:20 (KJV)
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.

 

[kelco]

Gen 26:21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Sitnah.

 

[bill'swife]

Genesis 26:22 (KJV)
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.

 

[doc329]

Genesis 26:23 (KJV)
And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

 

[barb754]

Genesis 26:24 (KJV)
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.