Genesis 26:14

And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him,

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

In Context

13And the man was enriched, and he went on prospering and increasing, till he became exceeding great:

15Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father Abraham had digged, filling them up with earth:

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

1 Samuel 18:9And Saul did not look on David with a good eye from that day and forward.

Job 5:2Anger indeed killeth the foolish, and envy slayeth the little one.

Psalms 112:3Glory and wealth shall be in his house: and his justice remaineth for ever and ever.

Proverbs 27:4Anger hath no mercy, nor fury when it breaketh forth: and who can bear the violence of one provoked?

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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