Genesis 26:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

• Genesis 26:25 - 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 26:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  And he builded an (x) altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. (x) To signify that he would serve no other God, but th...

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• Genesis 26:25 - 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 26:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. And he builded an altar there. From other passages we are well aware that Moses here speaks of public worship; for inward invocation of God neither requires an altar; nor has any special...

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• Genesis 26:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  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. Builded an altar there - That he might have a place for God'...

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• Genesis 26:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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 s...

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• Genesis 26:25 - 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 26:25 - 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 26:25 - 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...

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• Genesis 26:25 - 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 26:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  See how faithful men in all places, desire to erect, and leave behind them their testimonies to God's faithfulness. Genesis 12:7 ; Genesis 13:18 etc.

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• Genesis 26:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he builded an altar there ,.... At Beersheba, where his father Abraham had planted a grove before, and very probably had built an altar also, though it might not be now standing, Genesis 21:33...

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• Genesis 26:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  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. Ver. 25. And called upon the name of the Lord. ] That had...

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• Genesis 26:25 - 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 26:25 - 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 26:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Genesis 26:25 - 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 26:25 - 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 26:25 - 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 26:25 - 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...

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• Genesis 26:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Genesis 26:23 And he (viz; Isaac) went up from thence (Rehoboth, where latterly he had been encamped) to Beer-sheba —a former residence of Abraham ( Genesis 21:33 ), situate...

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• Genesis 26:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Enmity of the Philistines

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• Genesis 26:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  builded. Genesis 8:20 Genesis 12:7 Genesis 13:18 Genesis 22:9 Genesis 33:20 Genesis 35:1 Exodus 17:15 called. Psalms 116:17

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