Genesis 26:6

So Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

In Context

5Because that Abraham hearkened unto my voice,—and so kept my charge, my commandments my statutes and my laws.

7Then asked the men of the place as to his wife, and he said, My sister, is she,—For he feared to say My wife, lest [said he] the men of the place should slay me on account of Rebekah, for fair to look on, she is.

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Cross References

Genesis 20:1And Abraham brake up from thence, towards the land of the South, and fixed his dwelling between Kadesh and Shur, so he sojourned in Gerar.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:2-6

Removal of Isaac to Gerar. ( b. c. 1804.) 1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2 And the Lord appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: 3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy… Read the whole commentary →

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