famine. Accounts for Esau's despair of living, and hence selling his birthright. Genesis 25:29-34.
first. One of the thirteen famines. See note on Genesis 12:10.
Abimelech. official name. Not the same as Genesis 20:2.
Related Commentaries of Genesis 26:1
Genesis 26:1
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.