Genesis 26:25
And he builded there an altar, and prayed in the name of the Lord. And he spread there his tabernacle; and the servants of Izhak digged there a well.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
26And Abimelek came to him from Gerar, and a company of his friends, and Phikol the chief of his host.
Cross References
Genesis 8:20And Noach builded an altar before the Lord, and took of every clean beast and of every clean bird, and uplifted an offering upon the altar.
Genesis 12:8And he ascended from thence to the mountain east of Beth El, and spread out his tabernacle, having Beth El on the west and Ai on the east; and he builded there an altar before the Lord, and prayed in the name of the Lord.
Genesis 13:18And Abram spread (his tent), and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre which is near Hebron, and builded there an altar before the Lord.
Genesis 26:32And it was in that day that the servants of Izhak came and showed him concerning the well that they had digged. And they said to him, We have found water.
Genesis 35:1And the Lord said to Jakob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar unto Eloha, who appeared to thee when in thy flight from before Esau thy brother.
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 →