Genesis 26:16
Then Abimelech told Isaac, “You have to leave our country, because you've become much too powerful for us.”
Free Bible Version
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 used dirt to block up all the wells his father Abraham's servants had dug.
17So Isaac moved away and set up his tents in the Gerar Valley where he settled down.
Cross References
Exodus 1:9He conferred with his fellow Egyptians and said, “Look at these Israelites—there are more of them than us, and they're more powerful than 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 →