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Genesis 26 Bible study: Room for us
The LORD gave Isaac the promise he had sworn to Abraham, and the Bible's first uses of the words for commandments, statutes and laws describe how Abraham obeyed. Isaac repeated his father's "She is my sister", was blessed a hundredfold, and kept digging wells until the LORD made room at Rehoboth. His neighbors said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you."
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“The LORD appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.””
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What's really going on
The promise passes to Isaac
In a new famine, besides the first one in Abraham's day (26:1), the LORD appears to Isaac: "Don’t go down into Egypt" (26:1-2). Then he gives Isaac the promise he gave Abraham: "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. I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the sky… In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws" (26:3-5).
Where it leads to Jesus
Heir of the same promise
Genesis 26:4leads toActs 3:25-26
The LORD tells Isaac, "In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed" (26:4), and calls it "the oath which I swore to Abraham your father" (26:3). Hebrews calls Isaac and Jacob "the heirs with him of the same promise" (Hebrews 11:9). Peter quotes the promise to Abraham, "All the families of the earth will be blessed through your offspring", and says, "God, having raised up his servant Jesus, sent him to you first to bless you" (Acts 3:25-26).
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The rest of Genesis 26 is waiting in Favor
- Like father, like son
- Well after well
- "The LORD was with you"
- Living water
- What the neighbors saw
- 12 questions as you read
- 5 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
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The Hebrew word behind it
רְחֹבוֹתRechovotsay re-kho-VOHT
Strong's gives "streets"; Brown-Driver-Briggs lists it as the "name of well". Isaac explains the name himself: "For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land" (26:22), using the verb rachav, "be or grow, wide, large", here in the form meaning "make large", "enlarge" (Brown-Driver-Briggs, H7337). That verb appears in Genesis only here. A psalm uses it where the WEB has "Give me relief from my distress" (Psalm 4:1; verse 2 in the Hebrew). The same place name, Rehoboth, is also given to a city near Nineveh ("Rehoboth Ir", 10:11).
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Genesis 26 Bible study questions
- 1Isaac repeated his father's fear-driven words in the same town. What patterns have you inherited, good or bad?
- 2Isaac kept digging new wells instead of fighting over the old ones. When is it right to move on rather than contend?
- 3Abimelech said, "We saw plainly that the LORD was with you." What would people around you say they see?
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