27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.
This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.
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Chapter 26
In this chapter we have,
Gen 26:1-5
Here,
Gen 26:6-11
Isaac had now laid aside all thoughts of going to Egypt, and, in obedience to the heavenly vision, sets up his staff in Gerar, the country in which he was born (v. 6), yet there he enters into temptation, the same temptation that his good father had been once and again surprised and overcome by, namely, to deny his wife, and to give out that she was his sister. Observe,
Gen 26:12-25
Here we have,
Gen 26:26-33
We have here the contests that had been between Isaac and the Philistines issuing in a happy peace and reconciliation.
Gen 26:34-35
Here is,