From there Isaac went up to Beersheba, Context 23Then he went up from there to Beersheba. 24The LORD appeared to him the same night and said, 25So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well. Covenant with Abimelech 26Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army. 27Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?” 28They said, “We see plainly that the LORD has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, 29that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the LORD.’” 30Then he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. 31In the morning they arose early and exchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace. 32Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac’s servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” 33So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day. 34When Esau was forty years old he married Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite; 35and they brought grief to Isaac and Rebekah. Links Genesis 26:23 NIVGenesis 26:23 NLT Genesis 26:23 ESV Genesis 26:23 NASB Genesis 26:23 KJV Genesis 26:23 Commentaries Bible Hub |
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