e-Ministries   
   by Jon Justvig   
   May 20, 2014   
          
   Issue #: 31   
      
   Open your bibles to Genesis chapter 26, verse 1.   
      
   Gen 26:1  And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was   
   in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines   
   unto Gerar.    
   Gen 26:2  And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt;   
   dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:  Gen 26:3  Sojourn in this land,   
   and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy   
   seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I   
   sware unto Abraham thy father;    
      
   Our Lord God has commanded Abraham to leave the famine in the land and not go   
   down into Egypt.  He wanted him to be in the land that he will tell him to and   
   the Lord will bless him and his seed.  His seed being his children and   
   children's children, etc...   
      
   Gen 26:4  And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and   
   will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the   
   nations of the earth be blessed;    
   Gen 26:5  Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my   
   commandments, my statutes, and my laws.    
      
   Seed multiply as the stars of heaven...do you know how many stars are of   
   heaven?  Wow, that's a lot of seeds and the first generations multiplying to   
   the nowdays generations, you can see billons of people, not counting those   
   that have already passed over the last thousands of years.   
      
   Gen 26:6  And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:    
      
   Isaac, Abraham's son went to Gerar with his wife.   
      
   Gen 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, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the   
   place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.    
      
   This is important that he tell the king that his wife is his sister to protect   
   him and her.  The guards would kill him because she, Rebekah, was attractive.   
      
   Gen 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.  Gen 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   
   for her.    
   Gen 26:10  And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the   
   people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought   
   guiltiness upon us.    
   Gen 26:11  And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this   
   man or his wife shall surely be put to death.  Gen 26:12  Then Isaac sowed in   
   that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed   
   him.  Gen 26:13  And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he   
   became very great:    
   Gen 26:14  For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great   
   store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.  Gen 26:15  For all the   
   wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his   
   father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.    
   Gen 26:16  And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much   
   mightier than we.    
   Gen 26:17  And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of   
   Gerar, and dwelt there.    
   Gen 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.    
   Gen 26:19  And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well   
   of springing water.    
   Gen 26:20  And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying,   
   The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they   
   strove with him.    
   Gen 26:21  And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he   
   called the name of it Sitnah.    
   Gen 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   
   the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.  Gen   
   26:23  And he went up from thence to Beersheba.  Gen 26:24  And the LORD   
   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.  Gen 26:25  And he builded an altar there,   
   and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there   
   Isaac's servants digged a well.  Gen 26:26  Then Abimelech went to him from   
   Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his   
   army.  Gen 26:27  And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye   
   hate me, and have sent me away from you?  Gen 26:28  And they said, We saw   
   certainly that the LORD was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath   
   betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;    
   Gen 26:29  That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as   
   we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace:   
   thou art now the blessed of the LORD.    
   Gen 26:30  And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.  Gen 26:31    
   And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac   
   sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.  Gen 26:32  And it came   
   to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the   
   well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.    
   Gen 26:33  And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is   
   Beersheba unto this day.    
   Gen 26:34  And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the   
   daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the   
   Hittite:  Gen 26:35  Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.    
      
   Esau was one of Abraham's sons from the last article.  He was forty years old   
   when he took Judith.  We'll continue more in the next issue.  I hope you have   
   enjoyed todays reading.  May the Lord God guide you in your journey today.   
      
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