Genesis 26:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ There was another famine in the land besides the earlier one during the time of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

¹⁰ There was a famine in the land. Abram went down to Egypt to live there for a while, because the famine was severe.

¹ Abraham moved from Mamre to the southern part of Canaan and lived between Kadesh and Shur. Later, while he was living in Gerar, ² he said that his wife Sarah was his sister. So King Abimelech of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

²² Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham. They said: »God is with you in all that you do. ²³ »Swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity. Consider the kindness that I have shown to you. Please show it to me and to the land in which you have sojourned.« ²⁴ Abraham said: »I swear it.« ²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized. ²⁶ Abimelech said: »I do not know who has done this thing. You did not tell me, nor did I hear of it until today.« ²⁷ Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a covenant. ²⁸ Then Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves. ²⁹ Abimelech asked Abraham: »What do these seven ewe lambs mean, which you have set by themselves?« ³⁰ He said: »You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand so that it may be a witness to me, that I dug this well.« ³¹ Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there the two of them took an oath. ³² They made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, arose and returned to the land of the Philistines.

¹¹ After the death of Abraham, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived by Beer-lahai-roi. (The Well of the Living One, My Beholder).