Genesis 26:25
Isaac built an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. There also Isaac’s slaves dug a well.
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26Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.
Cross References
Genesis 8:20Noah built an altar to the Lord and took one of every beast and bird that was fit for sacrifice and offered burnt-offerings on the altar.
Genesis 12:8From there he moved on to the hill at the east of Bethel and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east, and there too he built an altar to the Lord and prayed to him.
Genesis 13:18Then Abram moved his tent and lived in the oak grove of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.
Genesis 26:32That same day, Isaac’s slaves came and told him about a well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
Genesis 35:1Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
Psalms 116:17I will offer to you a thank-offering, and call on the name of the Lord.
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 →