Genesis 26:16

And Abimelech sayde vnto Isahac: Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then we a great deale.

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In The King James Version

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

In Context

15For the Philistines stopped and fylled vp with earth all the welles which his seruauntes had digged in his father Abrahams tyme.

17Therefore Isahac departed thence, and abode in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

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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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