{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/26","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T08:07:22.246Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Genesis","bookSlug":"genesis","chapter":26,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":25,"nextChapter":27,"totalChapters":50,"totalVerses":35},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"And the LORD appeared to him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell you of:"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you, and to your seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I swore to Abraham your father;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And I will make your seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give to your seed all these countries; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And Isaac dwelled in Gerar:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"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 fair to look on."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is your wife; and how said you, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die for her."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And Abimelech said, What is this you have done to us? one of the people might lightly have lien with your wife, and you should have brought guiltiness on us."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundred times: and the LORD blessed him."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For all the wells which his father's servants had dig in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"And Isaac departed there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelled there."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"And Isaac dig again the wells of water, which they had dig in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and found there a well of springing water."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"And the herdsmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And they dig another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"And he removed from there, and dig another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"And he went up from there to Beersheba."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And the LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham your father: fear not, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"And he built an altar there, and called on the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dig a well."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"And Isaac said to them, Why come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"That you will do us no hurt, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace: you are now the blessed of the LORD."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And they rose up betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace."},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dig, and said to him, We have found water."},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day."},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:"},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and to Rebekah."}],"citation":{"inline":"Genesis 26 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Genesis 26](https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/26)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/genesis/26 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}