Genesis 26:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Then Isaac sowed in that land, and receiveda in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. ”

• Genesis 26:12 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  - The Events of Isaac’s Life 5. משׁמרת mı̂shmeret , “charge, ordinance.” מציה mı̂tsvâh , “command,” special order. חק choq , “decree, statute,” engraven on stone or metal. תירה tôr...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Genesis 26. Isaac and the Philistines. Apart from Genesis 26:34 f. this chapter belongs to J. The original has been expanded in Genesis 26:1-6 , and Genesis 26:15 ; Genesis 26:18 are harmonis...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  received. Hebrew found. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of the Species). Compare Genesis 6:8 ; Romans 4:1 .

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• Genesis 26:12 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  12. Then Isaac sowed. Here Moses proceeds to relate in what manner Isaac reaped the manifest fruit of the blessing promised to him by God; for he says, that when he had sowed, the increase wa...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. Isaac sowed in that land - Being now perfectly free from the fear of evil, he betakes himself to...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Then Isaac sowed, &c.— Continuing a long time in the land, Genesis 26:8 he applied himself to husbandry, for his own and his family's support; and that God, whose blessing maketh rich the...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. Then Isaac sowed. During his sojourn in that district he farmed a piece of land which, b...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaac at Gerar Many of the notes on Genesis 20, 21 are applicable to this chapter It is thought probable that the present narrative is in the main a repetition from another source of events alread...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC ( Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29 ). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The Tôldôth in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Isaac Is Blessed and Grows Rich Genesis 26:1-17 There was no harm in Isaac's going to Gerar, as he had a distinct command to that effect, Genesis 26:2-3 . But he does not seem to have been str...

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• Genesis 26:12 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We have here the account of the first direct divine communication of Jehovah to Isaac. It came in a time of difficulty such as that which had caused his father to go down into Egypt. Warned against r...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  That is a sweet promise Isaiah 65:18 ; Psalms 112:1-19

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• Genesis 26:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Then, Isaac sowed in that land ,.... In the land of Gerar; after matters were settled between him and Abimelech, and he had ordered his servants to do him no hurt, he sowed wheat or barley, or some...

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• Genesis 26:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. Ver. 12. Then Isaac sowed in that land. ] In ground hired for his use, and managed by himself...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaac sowed in that land Either in grounds which he had hired of the right owners, or in some which lay neglected, and therefore were free to the first occupier. That this should be the case, in th...

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• Genesis 26:12 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  ISAAC IN GERAR A famine occurs in the land, just as it had in the days of Abraham (ch.12:10). In that case Abraham went down to Egypt, whereas Isaac went only as far as Gerar, in the land of the P...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Isaac's Removal to Beersheba. B. C. 1804.       12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and receiv...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Isaac sowed in that land; either in the grounds which he had hired of the right owners, or in some grounds which lay neglected, and therefore were free to the first occupier; which was not strange...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  Isaac and Abimelech - a Story of Wells ( Genesis 26:12-33 ). Genesis 26:12 ‘And Isaac sowed in that land and found in that same year a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him. And the man became g...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 26:13 . Went forward.] Heb. “Went or walked, going;” i.e., “Became increasingly greater.” The Heb. term for walk is frequently used in the sense of continued increase....

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• Genesis 26:12 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Genesis 26:1 . Abimelech was a name common to the kings of Gerar, and the Philistines were of African descent. Genesis 10:14 . Genesis 26:2 . The Lord appeared unto him. The infancy of the...

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• Genesis 26:12 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Isaac sowed. .. and the Lord blessed him The prosperity of Isaac In this narrative it is Isaac the prosperous man who comes to view. Examine the sources and circumstances of his remarkable, un...

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• Genesis 26:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 26:12 Then Isaac sowed in that land ,—viz; Philistia. Though a distinct advance on the purely nomadic life pursued by Abraham, this did not imply fixed property in, or e...

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• Genesis 26:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Rebekah's Danger

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• Genesis 26:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  sowed. received. Heb. found. an hundredfold. Psalms 67:6 Psalms 72:16 Ecclesiastes 11:6 Zechariah 8:12 Matthew 13:8 Matthew 13:23 Mark 4:8 1 Corinthians 3:6 2 Corinthians 9:10 2 Co...

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• Genesis 26:12 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Isaac received an hundred fold — And there seems to be an emphasis laid upon the time; it was that same year when there was a famine in the land; while others scarce reaped at all, he reaped thus p...

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