Genesis 26:16
And Abimelech says to Isaac, “Go from us; for you have become much mightier than we”;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
In Context
17and Isaac goes from there, and encamps in the Valley of Gerar, and dwells there;
Cross References
Exodus 1:9and he says to his people, “Behold, the people of the sons of Israel [are] more numerous and mighty than we.
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 →