Season 5 Episode 3 – Genesis 26: Deja Vu!

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Intro - 1:54

Meet Nere!! - 2:22

A’ight So Boom! - 4:03

Read Genesis 26 1-5 - 9:46

• Another famine in the land (Previous one of note was during Abraham’s life)

• Familiar face and Familiar Place

• Gerar

• King Abimelech

• King of the Philistines

• The LORD told Isaac not to go to Egypt

• Dwell in the land that I shall tell you

• Blessing like his father?

• Sojourn in this land (Gerar)

• I will be with you

• I will bless you

• I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father

• I will multiply your offspring

• I will give your offspring all these lands

• In your offspring all the nations of the earth shall be blessed

• Because Abraham obeyed my voice

• Because Abraham kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws

Read Genesis 26 6-11 - 25:23

• Isaac settled in Gerar as the LORD said - Listened so a blessing

• Here we go again - My wife is my sister

• Men of the place asked, not the king

• Thinking the men of the place would kill him

• Rebekah was attractive in appearance

• They are found out

• After they had been there a long time (did anyone take Rebekah - nope)

• King Abimelech saw them through a window

• Isaac is laughing (fondling) Rebekah - Brothers and Sisters do not do this

• Abimelech called Isaac out

• Isaac called to task - Why call her your sister

• Isaac tells Abimelech why - Die because of her

• What is this you have done to us? - but nothing happened, because no one abducted her

• One of the people might lay with Rebekah (none did to this point)

• Would have brought guilt on us, back to Abraham and Abimelech

• Abimelech warned all the people, whoever touches this man or his wife will die

Read Genesis 26 12-16 - 40:54

• Isaac Worked the Land

• Sower and Reaped

• 100 fold in the same year (both show the blessing of the LORD)

• The LORD blessed him

• He became rich

• He gained more and more until he became very wealthy

• He had flocks, hears and many servants

• The Philistines were being grimey

• Filled the wells with earth

• Wells that Abraham dug

• Abimelech tells him to leave - you are much mightier than we (Treaty Done?)

Read Genesis 26:17-22 - 47:18

• Isaac settled in the Valley or Gerar (where is this in relation to Gerar)

• Isaac redug the wells of his father - Gave them the names his father gave them

• Dug some wells in the valley that were contested

• Esek - They contended with him

• Sitnah - They quarreled over it

• Dug the third well and no quarrel or fuss over it - called in Rehoboth

• For now the LORD has made room for us

• We shall be fruitful in the land

Read Genesis 26 23-25 - 55:42

• From the Valley of Gerar they go to Beersheba

• The LORD appeared to Isaac the night they moved

• Reminder of Who He (The LORD is)

• Told him to Fear Not

• Told him I am with you

• I will bless you

• I will multiply your offspring

• For Abraham sake

• Isaac builds and altar

• Isaac called upon the name of the LORD

• Pitched his tent there

• Dug a well

Read Genesis 26 26-33 - 57:12

• Abimelech meets Isaac - takes Ahuzzath and Phicol

• Isaac has questions, you hate me and sent me away from you

• They ‘plainly’ see that the LORD has been with you

• We want to make a pact between us

• Between You and Us

• Make a covenant with you

• You will do us no harm for in return to how we have not touched you, we sent you away in peace

• You are now blessed of the LORD (like they had something to do with the blessing?)

• Isaac showed hospitality - Made them a feast

• In the morning they exchanged oaths (the covenant)

• Note the reversal - Isaac sent them on their way

• Isaac’s servants dug another well and found water

• Isaac called it Shiba

• The city is Beersheba to this day (or that day)

Read Genesis 26 34-35 - 1:10:07

• Esau causing problems for everyone

• Took a wife - Judith a Hittite woman

• Took another wife - Basemath a Hittite woman

• They made life bitter for Isaac and rebekah

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