Genesis 26

2For the Lord had appeared to him and said, Go not down into Egypt, but dwell in the land which I will tell thee.

3Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and bless thee: for to thee and to thy seed I will give all this land. And I will establish My oath which I swore to thy father Abraham

4and multiply thy seed like the stars of heaven. And to thy seed I will give all this land; and by thy seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;

5because Abraham thy father hearkened to My voice and kept My ordinances and My commandments and My rules of rectitude and My rites.

7the men of the place made inquiry respecting his wife Rebekka; and he said, She is my sister, for he was afraid to say, She is my wife, lest peradventure the men of the place should kill him for Rebekka’s sake, for she was of a very beautiful countenance.

8However he continued there a long time; for Abimelech king of the Gerarites happening to look through a window saw Isaak dallying with Rebekka his wife.

9Whereupon Abimelech called Isaak and said to him certainly she is thy wife. Why then didst thou say, She is my sister? And Isaak said to him, Because I thought I might perhaps die for her.

10And Abimelech said to him, Why hast thou dealt thus with us? In a little while some person of my family might have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldst have brought guilt upon us through ignorance.

12And Isaak sowed in that land and got that year an hundredfold of barley. And the Lord blessed him

13and the man was exalted and prospered more and more till he became exceeding great.

14And he had flocks and herds of cattle and many fields under cultivation. And the Philistines envied him;

15and all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped up and filled them with earth.

17Upon this Isaak departed thence and took up his abode in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there.

18And Isaak digged again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had digged and which the Philistines had stopped up, after the death of his father Abraham. And he called them by the same names, by which his father had named them.

19Isaak’s servants also digged in the valley of Gerar, and found there a well of spring water.

20But the shepherds of the Gerarites contended with Isaak’s shepherds, saying the water was theirs. So he called the name of that well Injustice: because they did him injustice.

21Then he removed thence and digged another well; and about this also they contended; so he called its name Enmity.

22And he removed thence and digged another well; and about this they did not contend; So he called the name of it, Room-enough; saying, For now the Lord hath made room for us, though he hath increased us in the land.

24and the Lord appeared to him that night and said, I am the God of thy father Abraham; Fear not; for I am with thee; and I will bless thee and multiply thy seed for the sake of thy father Abraham.

25So he built there an altar and invoked the name of the Lord and fixed his tent there. And while the servants of Isaak were digging a well there in the valley of Gerar,

26Abimelech came to him from Gerar, accompanied with Ochozath his chamberlain and Phichol the general of his army.

28And they said, We saw plainly that the Lord is with thee; therefore we said, Let there be an oath between us and thee; and we will make a covenant with thee

29that thou wilt not do us an injury, as we have not hated thee but used thee well and sent thee away in peace, and thou art now blessed of the Lord.

30Then he made an entertainment for them and they ate and drank.

31And early next morning they arose and swore one to the other. And Isaak dismissed them and they departed from him in peace.

32And it happened that on that very day the servants of Isaak came and told him of the well which they had been digging and said, We have found water. So he called it, Oath. For this cause they call the name of the city, Well of Oath, even at this day.