Genesis 26

Question 1

Genesis 26:1

Answer 1

Now there was a famine in the land - besides the earlier famine of Abraham’s time - and Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerar.

Question 2

Genesis 26:2

Answer 2

The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.

Question 3

Genesis 26:3

Answer 3

Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

Question 4

Genesis 26:4

Answer 4

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

Question 5

Genesis 26:5

Answer 5

because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws.”

Question 6

Genesis 26:6

Answer 6

So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

Question 7

Genesis 26:7

Answer 7

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

Question 8

Genesis 26:8

Answer 8

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Question 9

Genesis 26:9

Answer 9

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac answered him, “Because I thought I might lose my life on account of her.”

Question 10

Genesis 26:10

Answer 10

Then Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the men might well have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

Question 11

Genesis 26:11

Answer 11

So Abimelech gave orders to all the people: “Anyone who molests this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.”

Question 12

Genesis 26:12

Answer 12

Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

Question 13

Genesis 26:13

Answer 13

The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.

Question 14

Genesis 26:14

Answer 14

He had so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

Question 15

Genesis 26:15

Answer 15

So all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

Question 16

Genesis 26:16

Answer 16

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us.”

Question 17

Genesis 26:17

Answer 17

So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

Question 18

Genesis 26:18

Answer 18

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

Question 19

Genesis 26:19

Answer 19

Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.

Question 20

Genesis 26:20

Answer 20

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

Question 21

Genesis 26:21

Answer 21

Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

Question 22

Genesis 26:22

Answer 22

He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying, “Now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land.”

Question 23

Genesis 26:23

Answer 23

From there he went up to Beersheba.

Question 24

Genesis 26:24

Answer 24

That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

Question 25

Genesis 26:25

Answer 25

Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

Question 26

Genesis 26:26

Answer 26

Meanwhile, Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his forces.

Question 27

Genesis 26:27

Answer 27

Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?”

Question 28

Genesis 26:28

Answer 28

They answered, “We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, ‘There ought to be a sworn agreement between us’ - between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you

Question 29

Genesis 26:29

Answer 29

that you will do us no harm, just as we did not molest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

Question 30

Genesis 26:30

Answer 30

Isaac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.

Question 31

Genesis 26:31

Answer 31

Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

Question 32

Genesis 26:32

Answer 32

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!”

Question 33

Genesis 26:33

Answer 33

He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.

Question 34

Genesis 26:34

Answer 34

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Question 35

Genesis 26:35

Answer 35

They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.