Genesis 26:16

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

17So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

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Cross References

Exodus 1:9“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.

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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