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There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar. See also: Genesis 12:10Genesis 25:11Genesis 21:22-32The LORD appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about. See also: Genesis 12:7Genesis 18:1Genesis 17:1Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father. See also: Genesis 28:15Psalms 105:9Genesis 22:16-18I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, See also: Acts 3:25Genesis 15:5Genesis 12:2-3because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.” See also: Matthew 7:24Genesis 22:18Genesis 22:16Isaac lived in Gerar. See also: Genesis 20:1The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.” See also: Proverbs 29:25Genesis 12:13Genesis 20:2When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife. See also: Isaiah 62:5Proverbs 5:18-19Judges 5:28Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’” Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!” See also: Genesis 12:18-19Genesis 20:9-10Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” See also: Psalms 105:15Genesis 20:6Proverbs 6:29Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him. See also: Mark 4:8Genesis 26:3Genesis 24:1The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great. See also: Proverbs 10:22Psalms 112:3Genesis 24:35He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him. See also: Genesis 37:11Ecclesiastes 4:4Psalms 144:13-14Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth. See also: Genesis 21:30Genesis 21:25Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.” See also: Exodus 1:9Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there. Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them. See also: Zechariah 13:2Numbers 32:38Genesis 21:31Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water. See also: John 7:38John 4:10-11Song of Songs 4:15The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him. See also: Genesis 21:25They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah. See also: Ezra 4:6He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.” See also: Genesis 17:6Exodus 1:7Psalms 118:5He went up from there to Beersheba. See also: Judges 20:1Genesis 46:1Genesis 21:31The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.” See also: Genesis 15:1Exodus 3:6Genesis 17:7He built an altar there, and called on the LORD’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well. See also: Psalms 116:17Genesis 13:18Genesis 12:7-8Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army. See also: Genesis 20:3Genesis 21:22-32Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?” See also: Genesis 26:16Judges 11:7Revelation 3:9They said, “We saw plainly that the LORD was with you. We said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let’s make a covenant with you, See also: Genesis 21:22-23Joshua 3:7Genesis 39:5that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of the LORD.” See also: Genesis 24:31Genesis 21:22Genesis 12:2He made them a feast, and they ate and drank. See also: Genesis 19:3Romans 12:18Hebrews 12:14They rose up some time in the morning, and swore an oath to one another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. See also: 1 Samuel 20:16-17Genesis 25:33Genesis 31:44The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.” See also: Proverbs 10:4Proverbs 13:4Genesis 26:25He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day. See also: Genesis 21:31Genesis 26:28When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite. See also: Genesis 36:2Exodus 34:16Genesis 36:13They grieved Isaac’s and Rebekah’s spirits. See also: Genesis 27:46Genesis 28:8Genesis 6:2
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Genesis 26:5
Ver. 5. Ceremonies of religion, observed under the law of nature. M.
↑ 5Genesis 26:7
Ver. 7. Sister, or niece. Though lawful at that time, it was not very common for people to marry such near relations; and therefore Isaac, by saying Rebecca was his sister, wished the people of Gerara to be ignorant of her being his wife; being under the like apprehension as his father had been twice before. He imitates his example, trusting in the protection of God, which had rescued Abraham from danger. C. xxi. H.
↑ 7Genesis 26:8
Ver. 8. His wife; using greater familiarity that a grave and virtuous man, like Isaac, would offer to do with his sister, or with another person's wife. --- Sin, or punishment, (M.) such as Abimelech's father had formerly experienced. H.
↑ 8Genesis 26:11
Ver. 11. Touch, or hurt, by offering to marry, &c. H. --- Adultery was punished with death among these nations. C. xxxvii . 24, as it was by the law of Moses. C.
↑ 11Genesis 26:12
Ver. 12. And the Lord. This is not mentioned as a miracle; for Egypt and many other countries produced 100 fold. Pliny xvii .
10. says, some parts of Africa rendered 150 times as much as was sowed. The famine had now ceased. C.
↑ 12Genesis 26:16
Ver. 16. Depart. Instead of repressing the outrages of his subjects, the king enters into their jealousies, and banishes a wealthy person, (H.) as the Athenians so frequently did afterwards with respect to their best citizens. Arist. Polit. ii . 9.
--- And Pharao used the same pretext, when he persecuted the Hebrews. C.
↑ 16Genesis 26:18
Ver. 18. Servants. So the Sept. and Syr. versions, and the Sam. copy against the Heb. in the days, which is incorrect.
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↑ 18Genesis 26:19
Ver. 19. Torrent. That is, a channel where sometimes a torrent, or violent stream had run. Ch. --- In this vale of Gerara, a never-failing spring was found. H.
↑ 19Genesis 26:22
Ver. 22. Latitude. That is, wideness, or room. Ch. --- Hebrew Reheboth, widely extended streams, latitudines. See C. x. 11.
↑ 22Genesis 26:24
Ver. 24. Of Abraham, who still lives before me, and for whom I always testified such affection, though I suffered him to be persecuted: hence, fear not. H.
↑ 24Genesis 26:26
Ver. 26. Ochozath. This name occurs in the Sept. as well as the other two; (C. xxi. 22.) and means a company of friends.
Phicol also signifies the mouth or face of all, being the general of the army, on whom the soldiers must be intent. These are, perhaps, therefore, the names of offices, not of persons; or if they be the same who lived with Abraham, they must have held their high command above 100 years. M. C.
↑ 26Genesis 26:35
Ver. 35. Offended. They were the daughters of princes of the Heathens, (Josephus) and being brought up in idolatry and pride, refused to give ear to the advice of Isaac, who never approved of the marriage of his son with them. Esau would not leave the choice of a wife to his father, as Isaac had done at the same age. H.
↑ 35License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses