26:4-26:24

[26:4] and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these lands; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; [26:5] because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. [26:6] And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: [26:7] and the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, My wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. [26:8] And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. [26:9] And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her. [26:10] And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. [26:11] And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. [26:12] And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him. [26:13] And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great: [26:14] and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him. [26:15] Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. [26:16] And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we. [26:17] And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there. [26:18] And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them. [26:19] And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. [26:20] And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. [26:21] And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. [26:22] And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land. [26:23] And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. [26:24] And Jehovah appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.