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Genesis 26:23
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21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also. So he called its name1 Sitnah.  
22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name1 Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall abe fruitful in the land.”  
23 Then he went up from there to Beersheba.
24 And the Lord aappeared to him the same night and said, b“I am the God of your father Abraham; cdo not fear, for dI am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham’s sake.”  
25 So he abuilt an altar there and bcalled on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.  
26 Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath, one of his friends, aand Phichol the commander of his army.  
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Genesis 26:23.

Genesis 26:23-25

In chapter 46 this one happened to Jacob, but this one in a way reflects back on Isaac because in the earlier part of chapter 26 Isaac was in a quandary about what to do about something and he was thinking about going down to Egypt and God stopped him from going there. We know what happened to Abraham there. God let him go down there and he got into a bushel of trouble. But in this case God intervened and He stopped Isaac from going there and He reoriented him and said, Instead go to Beersheba, which is where he went. And there He appeared to him to reassure him that he had done the right thing.

Excerpted from Amos 5 and the Feast of Tabernacles

 
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