Genesis 26:33 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he called it Shebah:i therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. ”

• Genesis 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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 26:33 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Shebah. Hebrew an oath. therefore. Same name given by Abraham ( Genesis 21:31 ). Names were sometimes reimposed for. new reason. Compare Bethel ( Genesis 28:18 ; Genesis 28:19 with Genesis 35...

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• Genesis 26:33 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. He called it Shebah - This was probably the same well which was called Beersheba in the time of Abraham, which th...

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• Genesis 26:33 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  He called it Sheba, &c.— As the wells which Abraham dug had been stopped up, most probably the names of them also had been forgotten. Isaac, therefore, in similar circumstances, and from a simi...

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• Genesis 26:33 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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. Isaac's servants ... said unto hi...

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• Genesis 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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 26:33 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Sheba means an oath, Beer the well; hence Beersheba, the well of the oath.

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• Genesis 26:33 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And he called it Sheba ,.... Which, according to Jerom, signifies "fulness", as if it had its name from the abundance of water in it; but rather it signifies an "oath", and was so called from the oa...

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• Genesis 26:33 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city [is] Beersheba unto this day. Ver. 33. Is Beersheba to this day. ] So it was before; but the name was almost worn out, the well being stoppe...

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• Genesis 26:33 - 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 26:33 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech. B. C. 1760.       26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar,...

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• Genesis 26:33 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This name had been given before, either to this or a neighbouring place, by Abraham, Genesis 21:31 ; but was now buried in oblivion, as his wells were; and the wells being revived, he revives and...

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• Genesis 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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...

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• Genesis 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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 26:33 - 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 26:33 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Covenant Between Isaac and Abimelech

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• Genesis 26:33 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Shebah. i.e., an oath. therefore. Genesis 21:31 Beer-sheba. i.e., the well of the oath. Genesis 26:28

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