Gerar

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• 2CH 14:12–15, engwebp

  ¹²So the LORD struck the Ethiopians before Asa and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

  ¹³Asa and the people who were with him pursued them to Gerar. So many of the Ethiopians fell that they could not recover themselves, for they were destroyed before the LORD and before his army. Judah’s army carried away very much booty.

  ¹⁴They struck all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the LORD came on them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.

  ¹⁵They also struck the tents of those who had livestock, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, then returned to Jerusalem.

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• GEN 20:1–7, engwebp

  ¹Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

  ²Abraham said about Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” Abimelech king of Gerar sent, and took Sarah.

  ³But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s wife.”

  ⁴Now Abimelech had not come near her. He said, “Lord, will you kill even a righteous nation?

  ⁵Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

  ⁶God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that in the integrity of your heart you have done this, and I also withheld you from sinning against me. Therefore I didn’t allow you to touch her.

  ⁷Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”

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• GEN 20:8–13, engwebp

  ⁸Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

  ⁹Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!”

  ¹⁰Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you have done this thing?”

  ¹¹Abraham said, “Because I thought, ‘Surely the fear of God is not in this place. They will kill me for my wife’s sake.’

  ¹²Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.

  ¹³When God caused me to wander from my father’s house, I said to her, ‘This is your kindness which you shall show to me. Everywhere that we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

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• GEN 26:1, engwebp

  ¹There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

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• GEN 26:1–3, engwebp

  ¹There was a famine in the land, in addition to the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

  ²The LORD appeared to him, and said, “Don’t go down into Egypt. Live in the land I will tell you about.

  ³Live in this land, and I will be with you, and will bless you. For I will give to you, and to your offspring, all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I swore to Abraham your father.

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• GEN 26:4–22, engwebp

  ⁴I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky, and will give all these lands to your offspring. In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed,

  ⁵because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”

  ⁶Isaac lived in Gerar.

  ⁷The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

  ⁸When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

  ⁹Abimelech called Isaac, and said, “Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘Lest I die because of her.’”

  ¹⁰Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”

  ¹¹Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

  ¹²Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. The LORD blessed him.

  ¹³The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

  ¹⁴He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

  ¹⁵Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

  ¹⁶Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

  ¹⁷Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

  ¹⁸Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

  ¹⁹Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of flowing water.

  ²⁰The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

  ²¹They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. So he called its name Sitnah.

  ²²He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. So he called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

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