Genesis 26:17

And departing, he then went toward the torrent of Gerar, and he dwelt there.

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In The King James Version

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

In Context

16It reached a point where Abimelech himself said to Isaac, “Move away from us, for you have become very much more powerful than we.”

18Again, he dug up other wells, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and which, after his death, the Philistines had formerly obstructed. And he called them by the same names that his father had called them before.

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Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:13-26

Isaac's Removal to Beersheba. ( b. c. 1804.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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