Genesis26

Now there was a famine in the land-besides the earlier famine of Abraham's time-and Issac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines in Gerer.  The LORD appeared to Issac and said, "Do not go down to Egypt; live in the land where I tell you to live.  Stay in this land for a shile, 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 Ahraham.  I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lans, and through your offspring all nations on earth will blessed, because Abraham obeyed ma and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."  So Issac stayed in Gerar.

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my wife."  He thought, "The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful."

When Issac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw Issac caressing his wife Rebekah.  So Abimelech summoned Issac and said, "She is really your wife!  Why did you say, 'She is my sister'?"

Issac answewed 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 would have brought guilt upon us."

Ao Abimelech gave orders to all the people:  "Anyone who molest this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

Issac planted crops in that land and the same year reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.  The man became rich, and his wearthy.  He had so many flochs and herds and servants that  the Philistines envied him.  So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth.

Then Abimelech said to Issac, "Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us."

So Issac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerer and settled there.  Issac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his fathers Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

Issac's servants dug in the valley and discovered a well of fresh water there.  But the herdmen of Gerar quarreled with Issac's herdsmen and said, The water si ours!"  So he named the well Esek, because they disputeed with him.  Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he namesd it Sitnah.  He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over ot.  He named it Rehoboth, saying, "Now the LORD has biven us room and we will flourish in the land."

From ther he went up to Beersheba.  That night the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am the God of you father Abraham.  Do not afraid, for I am with you;  I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

Issac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD.  There he pitched his tent, and there his servants dug a well.

Meanwhile, Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his personal adviser and Phicol the commander of his force.  Issac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

They answered, "We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, 'There ought to be a sworn agreement between us'-between us and you.  Let us make a treaty with you that you will do us no harm, just as we did not mloest you but always treated you well and sent you away in peace.  An now you are blessed by the LORD."

Issac then made a feast for them, and they ate and drank.  Early the next morning the men awore an oath to each other.  Then Issac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.

That day Issac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug.  They said, "We've found water!"  He called it Shibah, and to this day name of the town has been Beersheba.

When Esau was forty years old, he married Judith daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and also Basemath daughter of Elon the Hittite.  They were a source of grief to Issac and Rebekah.