Genesis 26:14

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Berean Standard Bible

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 he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

15So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:2And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

1 Samuel 18:9And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Psalms 112:3Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Psalms 144:13Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

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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