Genesis 26:17

And he went away, that he should come to the strand of Gerar, and dwelled there. (And so he went away from that place, and came to the Gerar Valley, and lived there.)

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In The King James Version

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

In Context

16in so much that Abimelech himself said to Isaac (or and finally Abimelech himself said to Isaac), Go thou away from us, for thou art made greatly mightier than we (be).

18And he digged again other wells, which the servants of Abraham his father had digged, and which the Philistines had stopped sometime, when Abraham was dead, (or and which the Philistines had stopped up, after Abraham had died); and he called those wells by the same names, by which his father had called (them) before.

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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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