The Bible Study Podcast, episode 670. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of Genesis with chapter 26.

Welcome to the Bible study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We continue on. Now we're in the story of Isaac and Abimelech.

Genesis 26. Now there was a famine in the land besides the previous famine in Abraham's time. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines in Garar. The Lord appeared to Isaac and said,

Do not go down to Egypt.

Live in the land where I tell you to live.

Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you.

For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands,

and will confirm the oath I swore to your father, Abraham.

I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands and through your offspring

all nations on earth will be blessed. Because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him,

keeping my commands, my decrees, and my instructions.

So Isaac stayed in Garar. When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said,

She is my sister, because he was afraid to say she is my wife. He thought the men of this place

might kill me on account of Rebecca because she is beautiful.

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Isaac caressing his wife, Rebecca.

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, she is really your wife.

Why did you say she is my sister?

Isaac answered him, because I thought I might lose my life on account of her

Then Abimelech said what is this you have done to us one of the men might well have slept with your wife and you had have brought guilt upon us

So Abimelech gave orders to all the people anyone who harms this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

Isaac planted crops in that land, and the same year reaped a hundredfold because the Lord

blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.

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