And there was a famine in the land, beside the ¹first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
¹ Gen 12:10

And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; ¹dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:
¹ Psa 37:3

Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the ¹oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;
¹ Psa 105:9

And I will make thy seed to ¹multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
¹ Gen 13:16, Exod 32:13, Num 23:10, Deut 1:10, 1st Chron 27:23, Jer 33:22, Rom 4:16, Heb 11:12

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Because that Abraham ¹obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my ^alaws.
¹ Gen 22:12, James 2:21

And Isaac dwelt in ¹Gerar:
¹ Gen 20:1

And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was ¹fair to look upon.
¹ Gen 12:11

And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that ¹Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
¹ Gen 20:3

And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

And Abimelech said, ¹What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.
¹ Gen 12:18, Gen 20:9

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD ¹blessed him.
¹ Gen 24:1, Job 42:12, Prov 3:16, Mark 10:30

And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines ¹envied him.
¹ Gen 37:11, Eccl 4:4

For all the ¹wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
¹ Gen 21:25

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much ¹mightier than we.
¹ Exod 1:9

And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he ¹called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
¹ Gen 21:31

And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

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And the herdmen of Gerar did ¹strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well ^aEsek; because they strove with him.
¹ Gen 13:7

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And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it ^aSitnah.

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And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it ^aRehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be ¹fruitful in the land.
¹ Exod 1:7

And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the ¹God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
¹ Gen 17:7, Gen 28:13

And he ¹builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
¹ Gen 13:18

Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye ¹hate me, and have sent me away from you?
¹ Judges 11:7

And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was ¹with thee: and we said, Let there be now an ²oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
¹ Gen 21:22, Isa 8:10
² Gen 21:27

That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: ¹thou art now the blessed of the LORD.
¹ Gen 24:31, Judges 17:2, Ruth 3:10

And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink.

And they rose up betimes in the morning, and ¹sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
¹ Gen 21:31

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.

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And he called it ^aShebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

And Esau was forty years old when he ¹took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:
¹ Gen 28:1, Gen 28:8, Gen 36:2, Heb 12:16

Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.