Genesis 26:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.f ”

Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Sitnah. Hebrew opposition.
Genesis 26:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. They dug another well - Never did any man more implicitly follow the Divine command, Resist not evil, than...
Genesis 26:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. Sitnah, х SiTnaah ( H7856 )] - hatred, accusation. Wilton suggests that this well was dug in W...
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaac's Wells and Covenant Genesis 26:18-35 It is interesting to follow Isaac in his well-digging. Let us also dig wells and set streams flowing, which will bless men long after we have gone ho...
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Sitnah means hatred
Genesis 26:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they digged another well ,.... That is, Isaac's servants: and strove for that also ; the herdsmen of Gerar disputed their right to that also, and strove to get it from them: and he called th...
Genesis 26:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah. Ver. 21. And he called the name of it Sitnah. ] Of Satan; to hate deadly, as the devil doth. So the Pre...
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaac's Removal to Beersheba. B. C. 1804. 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and receiv...
Genesis 26:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - 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....
Genesis 26:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 26:20-22 , Genesis 26:33 These four names are the names of four wells of springing water, dug in a valley, to feed families and flocks. Esek means strife; Sitnah, hatred; Rehoboth, roo...
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaac digged again the wells of water Isaac’s wells These four names are the names ( Genesis 26:20-22 ; Genesis 26:33 ) of four wells of springing water, dug in a valley, to feed families and...
Genesis 26:21 - 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...
Genesis 26:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Enmity of the Philistines
Genesis 26:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sitnah. i.e., Hatred. Ezra 4:6
Genesis 26:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Sitnah — That is, hatred.

Genesis 26:21 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Genesis 26:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Genesis 26:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Genesis 26:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Genesis 26:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Genesis 26:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Genesis 26:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Genesis 26:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Genesis 26:21 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Genesis 26:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Genesis 26:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Genesis 26:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Genesis 26:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Genesis 26:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Genesis 26:21 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes