Genesis 26:27
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, a man whom you hate, and whom you have expelled from among you?”
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Genesis 26:16It reached a point where Abimelech himself said to Isaac, “Move away from us, for you have become very much more powerful than we.”
Acts 7:9And the Patriarchs, being jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him.
Acts 7:27But he who was causing the injury to his neighbor rejected him, saying: ‘Who has appointed you as leader and judge over us?
Revelation 3:9Behold, I will take from the synagogue of Satan those who declare themselves to be Jews and are not, for they are lying. Behold, I will cause them to approach and to reverence before your feet. And they shall know that I have loved you.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:27-34
Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech. ( b. c. 1760.) 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28 And 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; 29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as… Read the whole commentary →