Genesis 26:5-10

God's Promise to Isaac

5 because e Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

Isaac and Abimelech

6 So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, f he said, "She is my sister," for g he feared to say, "My wife," thinking, "lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah," because h she was attractive in appearance. 8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with 1 Rebekah his wife. 9 So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'" 10 Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and i you would have brought guilt upon us."

  1. Cross References
    Genesis 22:18
    And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.
  2. Cross References
    Genesis 12:13
    Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.
    Genesis 20:2
    And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, "She is my sister." And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
    Genesis 20:13
    And when God caused me to wander from my father's house, I said to her, 'This is the kindness you must do me: at every place to which we come, say of me, He is my brother.'
  3. Cross References
    Proverbs 29:25
    The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 24:16
    The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 20:9
    Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, "What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.
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