Genesis 26:23

Then Isaac went up from there to Beersheba.

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And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.

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22He left there and dug yet another well, but they did not quarrel over that one. So he called it Rehoboth, and he said, “Now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”

24Yahweh appeared to him that same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Do not fear, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your descendants, for my servant Abraham's sake.”

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Cross References

Genesis 46:1Israel made his journey with all that he had and went to Beersheba. There he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Amos 5:5Do not seek Bethel; 1 nor enter Gilgal; 1 do not journey to Beersheba. 1 For Gilgal will surely go into captivity, 1 and Bethel will become nothing. 1

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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