Genesis 26:6
in Genesis 26So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:
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This verse in Genesis 26
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
So Isaac settled in Gerar
on Genesis 26:6-7
Isaac tells the men of that place that Rebekah is his sister, the third time this happens in Genesis. It is the second time in this town, and Isaac had not been born for either of the first two, at 12:13 and 20:2. Genesis never says how the son learned it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
), yet there he enters into temptation, the same temptation that his good father had been once and again surprised and overcome by, namely, to deny his wife, and to give out that she was his sister.
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And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. Continued there; in this he was obedient to the command and will of God.
And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. Continued there; in this he was obedient to the command and will of God.
The words behind it
3 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֵּ֥שֶׁב | vaiyeshev | and he dwelt | H3427 → | 1079 times |
| יִצְחָ֖ק | yitzchak | Isaac | H3327 → | 108 times |
| בִּגְרָֽר׃ | bigrar | in Gerar | H1642 → | 10 times |
וַיֵּ֥שֶׁבand he dwelt
vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times
יִצְחָ֖קIsaac
yitzchakH3327 →108 times
בִּגְרָֽר׃in Gerar
bigrarH1642 →10 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 20:1Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,
it leads to
- Genesis 26:1
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
- Psalms 29:8
The voice of the LORD shakes the wilderness; the LORD shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
- 2 Chronicles 14:13–14
Then Asa and his army pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell and could not recover, for they were crushed before the LORD and His army. So the people of Judah carried…
- Genesis 18:1
Then the LORD appeared to Abraham by the Oaks of Mamre in the heat of the day, while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent.
- Genesis 13:1
So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.
- Genesis 26:1
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
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This page draws on John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.