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29 - Commentary on The Book of Genesis · Commentary on The Book of Genesis

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Chapter twenty six. In this chapter we have numeral one Isaac in adversity by
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reason of a famine in the land, which number one obliges him to change
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his quarters verse one, but number two God visits him with direction and comfort
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Verses two through five. Number three. He foolishly denies his wife being in
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distress, and is reproved for it by abimelech Verses six through eleven. Numeral
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two Isaac in prosperity by the blessing of God upon him Verses twelve through fourteen,
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and number one. The Philistines were envious at him Verses fourteen through seventeen,
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Number two. He continued industrious in his business Verses eighteen through twenty three.
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Number three. God appeared to him and encouraged him, and he devoutly
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acknowledged God Verses twenty four and twenty five. Number four. The Philistines at
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length made court to him and made a covenant with him Verses twenty six through
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thirty three, Number five. The disagreeable marriage of his son Esau, which
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was an alloy to the comfort of his prosperity Verses thirty four and thirty five.
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Removal of Isaac to Jerrar b c. Eighteen o four Verse one.
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And there was a famine in the land beside the first famine that was in
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the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech, king of the Philistines,
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unto Jerrar verse two. And the Lord appeared to him and said,
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go not down into Egypt, dwell in the land which I shall tell thee
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ab verse three. Sojourn in this land, and I will be with THEE,
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and will bless THEE. For unto THEE and unto thy seed, I
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will give all these countries. And I will perform the oath which I swear
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unto Abraham, thy father, verse four. And I will make thy seed
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the multipli as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all
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these countries. And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
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blessed. Verse five. Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge,
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my commandments, my statutes, and my laws. Here numeral one,
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God tried Isaac by his providence. Isaac had been trained up in a believing
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dependence upon the divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs.
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Yet now there is a famine in the land. Verse one, What
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shall he think of the promise when the promised land will not find him bred?
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Is such a grant worth accepting upon such terms? And after so long
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a time, Yes, Isaac will still cleave to the covenant. And the
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less valuable Canaan in itself seems to be the better. He is taught to
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value it. Number one as a token of God's everlasting kindness to him,
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and the number two as a type of Heaven's everlasting blessedness. Note the intrinsic
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worth of God's promises cannot be lessened in a believer's eye by any cross providences.
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Numeral two. He directed him under this trial by his word. Isaac
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finds himself straightened by the scarcity of provisions. Somewhere he must go for supply.
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It should seem he set out for Egypt, whether his father went in
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the like straight But he takes Jerar in his work, full of thoughts,
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no doubt which way he had best steer his course, till God graciously appeared
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to him and determined him abundantly to his satisfaction. Number one. God bade
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him stay where he was and not go down into Egypt. So journ in
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this land Verses two and three. There was a famine in Jacob's days,
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and God bade him go down in Egypt. Chapter forty six, Verses three
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and four. A famine in Isaac's days, and God bade him not to
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go down. A famine in Abraham's days, and God left him to his
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liberty, directing him neither way. This variety in the divine procedure, considering
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that Egypt was also a place of trial and exercised God's people, some ground
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upon the different characters of these three patriarchs. Abraham was a man of very
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high attainments and intimate communion with God, and to him all places and conditions
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were alike. Isaac was a very good man, but not cut out for
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hardship. Therefore he is forbidden to go to Egypt. Jacob was inured to
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difficulties, strong and patient, and therefore he must go down into Egypt,
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that the trial of his faith might be to praise and honor and glory.
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Thus God proportions his people's trials to their strength. Number two. He promised
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to be with him and bless him verse three. And he may go anywhere
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with comfort when God's blessings goes with us, so we may stay anywhere contentedly
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if that blessing rests upon us. Number three, he renewed the covenant with
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him which had so often been made with Abraham, him repeating and ratifying the
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promises of the Land of Canaan a numerous issue, and the Messiah Verses three
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and four note those that must live by faith have need often to review and
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repeat to themselves the promises they are to live upon, especially when they are
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called to any instance of suffering or self denial. Number four, he recommended
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to him the good example of his father's obedience and that which had preserved the
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entail of the covenant in his family. Verse five, Abraham obeyed my voice.
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Do thou do so? Two, and the promise shall be sure to
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thee. Abraham's obedience is here celebrated to his honor, for by it he
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obtained a good report both with God and man. A great variety of words
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is here used to express the divine will to which Abraham was obedient. My
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voice, my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws,
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which may intimate that Abraham's obedience, while universal, he obeyed the original laws
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of nature. The revealed laws of divine worship, particularly that of circumcision,
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and all the extraordinary precepts God gave him, as that of quitting his country,
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and that which something is more especially referred to, of the offering up
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of his son, which Isaac himself had reason enough to remember. Note those
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only shall have the benefit and comfort of God's covenant with their godly parents that
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tread in the steps of their obedience. Isaac's denial of his wife b.
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C. Eighteen forty, verse six. And Isaac dwelt in jerrar verse seven.
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And the men of the place asked him of his wife, and he
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said, she is my sister. For he feared to say she is my
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wife. Lest said he the men of the place should kill me for Rebecca,
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because she was fair to look upon verse eight. And it came to
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pass, when he had been there a long time, that a Bimelech king
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and the Philistines, looked out at a window and saw, and behold,
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Isaac was sporting with Rebecca his wife. Verse nine. And a Bimelech called
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Isaac and said, behold of a surety, she is thy wife. And
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how saidest thou she is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, because
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I said, lest I die for her verse ten. And Abimelech said,
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what is this thou hast done unto us? One of the people might lightly
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have lain with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us verse
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eleven. And the Bimleck charged all his people, saying he that toucheth this
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man or his wife shall surely be put to death. Isaac had now laid
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aside all thoughts of going to Egypt, and, in obedience to the heavenly
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vision, sets up his staff in Gerrar, the country in which he was
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born verse six. Yet there he enters into temptation, the same temptation that
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his good father had been once and again surprised and overcome by, namely to
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deny his wife and to give out that she was his sister. Observe numeral
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one. How he sinned verse seven because his wife was handsome. He fancied
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the Philistines would find some way or other to take him off, that some
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of them might marry her, and therefore she must pass for his sister.
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It is an unaccountable thing that both these grave and good men should be guilty
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of so strange a piece of dissimulation by which they so much exposed both of
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their own and their wise reputation. But we see number one, that very
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good men have sometimes been guilty of very great faults and follies. Let those
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therefore the stand take heed lest they fall, and those that have fallen not
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despair of being helped up. Again. Number two, that there is an
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aptness in us to imitate even the weaknesses and infirmities of those we have a
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value, for we have need them, therefore, to keep our foot,
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lest while we aim to tread in the steps of good men, we sometimes
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tread in their by steps. Numeral two. How he was detected and the
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cheap discovered by the king himself a bimelech, not the same that was in
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Abraham's Days Chapter twenty, for this was nearly one hundred years after that.
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But this was the common name of the Philistine kings. As Caesar of the
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Roman emperors saw Isaac more familiar and pleasant with Rebecca than he knew he would
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be with his sister. Verse eight, he saw him sporting with her,
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or laughing. It is the same word with that from which Isaac had his
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name. He was rejoicing with the wife of his youth Proverbs verse eighteen.
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It becomes those in that relation to be pleasant with one another as those that
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are pleased with one another. Nowhere may a man more allow himself to be
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innocently merry than with his own wife and children. Abimelech charged him with the
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fraud verse nine, showed him how frivolous this excuse was, and what might
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have been the bad consequences of it verse ten. And then to convince him
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how groundless and unjust his jealousy of them was, took him and his family
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under his particular protection forbidding any injury to be done to him or his wife
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upon pain of death verse eleven. Note one, a lying ton is but
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for a moment. Truth is the daughter of time, and in time it
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will out. Two. One Sin is often the inlet to many, and
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therefore the beginnings of sin ought to be avoided. Three the sins of Professor's
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shame them before those that are without. Four. God can make those that
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are incensed against his people, though there may be some color of cause for
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it, to know that it is at their peril if they do them any
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hurt see Psalms Chapter one oh five verses fourteen and fifteen Isaac's removal to Beersheba
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b. C. Eighteen o four Verse twelve. Then Isaac sowed in that
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land and received in the same year an one hundredfold, and the Lord blessed
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him verse thirteen. And the man waxed great and went forward and grew until
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he became very great verse fourteen. For he had possession of flocks, and
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possession of herds, and great store of servants. And the Philistines ended him
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verse fifteen. For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the
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days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with
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earth verse sixteen. And Abimelech said into Isaac, go from us, for
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thou art much mightier than we verse seventeen. And Isaac departed, thence and
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pitched his tent in the valley of Jerrar, and dwelt there Verse eighteen.
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And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days
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of Abraham his father, for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of
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Abraham. And he called their names after the names by which his father had
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called them. Verse nineteen. And Isaac's servants digged in the valley and found
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there a well of spring water. And the herdman of Gerard did strive with
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Isaac's heard men, saying the water is ours. And he called the name
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of the well Essek, because they strove with him verse twenty one. And
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they digged another well and strove for that also, and he called the name
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of it Sitna verse twenty two. And he removed from thence and digged another
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well, and for that they strove not. And he called the name of
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it Rehoboth. And he said, for now the Lord hath made room for
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us, and we shall be fruitful in the land verse twenty three. And
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he went up from thence to Beersheba verse twenty four. And the Lord appeared
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to him the same knight, and said, I am the God of Abraham,
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thy father. Fear not, for I am with THEE, and will
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bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake verse twenty five.
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And he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord,
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and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants digged a well. Here
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we have numeral one the tokens of God's good will to Isaac. He blessed
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him and prospered him, and made all that he had to thrive under his
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hands. Number one. His corn multiplied strangely verse twelve. He had no
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land of his own, but took land of the Philistines and sowed it.
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And be it observed for the encouragement of poor tenants that occupy other people's lands.
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And our honest and industrious God blessed him with a great increase. He
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reaped a hundredfold, and there seems to be an emphasis laid upon the time.
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It was that same year when there was a famine in the land.
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While others scarcely reaped at all, he reaped thus plentifully. See Isaiah chapter
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sixty five, verse thirteen. My servant shall eat, but you shall be
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hungry Psalms chapter thirty seven, verse nineteen. In the days of famine,
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they shall be satisfied. Two. His cattle also increased verse fourteen, and
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then three. He had great store of servants, whom he employed and maintained.
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Note. As goods are increased, those are increased that eat them.
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Ecclesiastes chapter five, verse eleven. Numeral two. The tokens of the philistines
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ill will to him. They envied him verse fourteen. It is an instant,
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number one one, of the vanity of the world, that the more
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men have of it, the more they are envied and exposed to censure and
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injury. Who can stand before envy? Proverbs Chapter twenty seven, verse four.
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See Ecclesiastes, chapter four, verse four, number two of the corruption
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of nature, for that is a bad principle, indeed, which makes men
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grieve at the good of others, as if it must needs be ill with
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me, because it is well with my neighbor. One. They had already
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shown their ill will to his family by stopping up the wells which his father
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had digged verse fifteen. This was spitefully done, because they had not flocks
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of their own to water at these wells. They would not leave them for
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the use of others. So absurd a thing is moul and it was perfidiously
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done, contrary to the covenant of friendship they had made with Abraham Chapter twenty
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one, Verses thirty one and thirty two. No bonds will hold ill nature.
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Two. They expelled him out of their country Verses sixteen and seventeen,
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the king of Jerrar began to look upon him with a jealous eye. Isaac's
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house was like a court, and his riches and retinue eclipsed of imelechts,
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and therefore he must go further off. They were weary of his neighborhood because
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they saw that the Lord blessed him, whereas for that reason they should the
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rather have courted his stay, that they also might be blessed for his sake.
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Isaac does not insist upon the bargain he had made with them for the
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lands he held, nor upon his occupying and improving them, nor does he
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offer to contest with them by force, though he had become very great,
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but very peaceably departs thence further from the royal city, and perhaps to a
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part of the country less fruitful. Note we should deny ourselves, both in
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our rights and in our conveniences, rather than quarrel. A wise and a
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good man will rather retire into obscurity, like Isaac here into a valley,
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than sit high to be the butt of envy and ill will Numeral three.
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His constancy and continuance in his business still number one. He kept up his
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husbandry and continued industrious to find wells of water and to fit them for his
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use verse eighteen, et cetera. Though he had grown very rich, yet
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he was as solicitous as ever about the state of his flocks, and still
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looked well to his herds. When men grow great, they must take heed
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of thinking themselves too big and too high for their business. Though he was
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driven from the conveniences he had had, and could not follow his husbandry with
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the same ease and advantage as before, yet he set himself to make the
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best of the country he had come into, which it is every man's prudence
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to do. Observe One. He opened the wells that his father had digged
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verse eighteen, and out of respect to his father, called them by the
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same names that he had given them. Note in our searches after truth,
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that fountain of living water. It is good to make use of the discoveries
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of former ages, which have been clouded by the corruptions of later times.
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Inquire for the old way, the wells which our fathers digged, which the
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adversaries of truth have stopped up. Ask thy elders, and they shall teach
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thee Two his servants dug new wells verse nineteen. Note, though we must
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use the light of former ages, it does not therefore follow that we must
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rest in it and make no advances. We must still be building upon their
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foundation, running to and fro that knowledge may be increased. Daniel chapter twelve,
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verse four. Three. In digging his wells he met with much opposition
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Verses twenty and twenty one. Those that opened the fountains of truth must expect
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contradiction. The first two wells which they dug were called essek and Sitna,
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contention and hatred. See here. One what is the nature of worldly things?
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They are makebates that occasions of strife? Two? What is often the
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law even of the most quiet and peaceable men in this world? Those that
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avoid striving yet cannot avoid being striven? With Psalms Chapter one, twenty,
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verse seven. In this sense, Jeremiah was a man of contention Jeremiah chapter
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fifteen, verse ten. And Christ himself, though he is the prince of
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peace. Three What a mercy it is to have plenty of water, to
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have it without striving for it. The more commonness mercy is, the more
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reason we have to be thankful for it. Four. At length, he
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removed to a quiet settlement, cleaving to his peaceable principle rather than to fly
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than five, and unwilling to dwell with those that hated peace. Psalms,
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Chapter one hundred twenty, verse six. He preferred quietness to victory. He
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dug a well, and for this they strove not verse twenty two. Note
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those that follow peace sooner or later shall find peace. Those that study to
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be quiet seldom fail of being so. How unlike was Isaac to his brother
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Ishmael, who right or wrong, would hold what he had against all the
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world Chapter sixteen, verse twelve. And which of these would we be found?
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The followers of this well they call Rehoboth enlargements room enough in the two
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former wells, we may see what the earth is straitness and strife. Men
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cannot thrive for the throng of their neighbors. This wealth shows us what heaven
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is. It is enlargement and peace. Room enough there, for there are
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many mansions. Number two. He continued firm to his religion and kept up
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his communion with God. One God graciously appeared to him verse twenty four.
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When the Philistines expelled him, forced him to remove from place to place,
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and gave him continual molestation. Then God visited him and gave him fresh assurances
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of his favor. Note when men are found false and unkind, we may
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comfort ourselves that God is faithful and gracious, and his time to show himself
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so is when we are most disappointed in our expectations from men. When Isaac
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had come to Bearsheba verse twenty three, it is probable that it troubled him
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to think of his unsettled condition, and that he could not be suffered to
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stay long in a place and in the multitudes of these thoughts within him.
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That same night that he came weary and uneasy to bear Sheba, God brought
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him his comforts to delight his soul. Probably he was apprehensive that the Philistines
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might not let him rest there. Fear not, says God to him.
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I am with thee and will bless thee. Those may remove from comfort that
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are sure of God's presence with them wherever they go. Two. And he
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was not wanting in his returns to duty to God, for there he built
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an altar and called upon the name of the Lord. Chapter five, verse
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twenty five. Note one, wherever we go, we must take our religion
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along with us. Probably Isaac alters and his religious worship, gave offense to
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the Philistines and provoked them to be the more troublesome to him. Yet he
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kept up his duty, whatever ill will he might be exposed to buy it.
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Two. The comforts and encouragements God gives us by his word should excite
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and quicken us to every exercise of devotion by which God may be honored,
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and our intercourse with Heaven maintained. Isaac's covenant with Abimelech be Sees seventeen sixty,
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verse twenty six. Then Abimlek went to him from Jerrar, and Ajumath,
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one of his friends, and Peshol, the chief captain of his army,
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verse twenty seven. And Isaac said, unto them, wherefore come ye
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to me, seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you verse
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twenty eight. And they said, we saw certainly that the Lord was with
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THEE. And we said, let there be thou an oath betwixt us,
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even betwixt us and THEE, and let us make a covenant with Thee verse
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twenty nine, that thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not
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touched THEE, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and
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have sent thee away in peace. Thou art now the blessed of the Lord
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verse thirty And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink
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verse thirty one. And they rose up betimes in the morning and swear one
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to another. And Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in
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peace verse thirty two. And it came to pass the same day that Isaac's
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servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said,
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unto him, we have found water verse thirty three. And he called
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it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba. Unto this day
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we have here the contests that have been between Isaac and the Philistines, issuing
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in a happy peace and reconciliation. Numeral one. A Bimelech pays a friendly
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visit to Isaac in token of the respect he had for him. Verse twenty
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six. Note when a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his
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enemies to be at peace with him. Proverbs, Chapter sixteen, verse seven.
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King's hearts are in his hands, and when he pleases, he can
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turn them to favor his people. Numeral two. Isaac prudently and cautiously questions
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his sincerity in this visit Versi twenty seven. Note in settling friendships and correspondences,
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there is need of the wisdom of the serpent as well as the innocence
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of the dove. Nor is it any transgression of the law of meekness and
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love, plainly to signify our strong perception of injuries received, and to stand
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upon our guard in dealing with those that have acted unfairly. Numeral three.
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Abimelek professes his sincerity in this address to Isaac and earnestly courts his friendship Verse
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twenty eight and twenty nine. Some suggest that Abimelech pressed for this league with
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him because he feared lest Isaac growing rich, should some time or other avenge
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himself upon them for the injuries he had received. However, he professes to
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do it rather from a principle of love. One he makes the best of
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their behavior towards him. Isaac complained they had hated him and sent him away.
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No, said Ebimelech, We sent thee away in peace. They turned
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him off from the land he held of them, but they suffered him to
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take away his stock and all his effects with him. Note the lessening of
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injuries is necessary to the preserving of friendships, for the aggravating of them exasperates
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and widens breaches. The unkindness done to us might have been worse. Two.
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He acknowledges the token of God's favor to him, and makes this the
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ground their desire to be in league with him. The Lord is with Thee,
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and thou art the blest of the Lord, as if he had said,
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be persuaded to overlook and pass by the injuries offered THEE, for God
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had abundantly made up to THEE the damages thou receivest. Note those whom God
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blesses and favors have reason enough to forgive those who hate them, since the
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worst enemy they have cannot do them any real hurt. Or For this reason,
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we desire thy friendship, because God is with thee. Note it is
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good to be in covenant and communion with those who are in covenant and communion
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with God. First John, chapter one, verse three. Present addressed to
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him was the result of mature deliberation. We said, let there be an
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oath between us, whatever some of his peevish envious subjects might mean otherwise,
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he and his prime ministers of state, whom he had now brought with him,
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designed no other than a cordial friendship. Perhaps a Bimelech had received by
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tradition the warning God gave to his predecessor not to hurt Abraham Chapter twenty,
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verse seven. And this made him stand in such awe of Isaac, who
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appeared to be as much the favorite of Heaven as Abraham was. Numeral iov.
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Isaac entertains him and his company and enters into a league of friendship with
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him Verses thirty thirty one. Here see how generous the good man was.
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Number one in giving, he made them a feast and bade them welcome.
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Number two in forgiving. He did not insist upon the unkindnesses they had done
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him, but freely entered into a covenant of friendship with them, and bound
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himself never to do them any injury. Note religion teaches us to be neighbourly,
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and as such as in us lies to live peaceably with all men.
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Numeral five. Providence smiled upon what Isaac did, for the same day that
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he made this covenant with a Bimelech, his servants brought him the tidings of
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a well of water they had found Verses thirty two and thirty three. He
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did not insist upon the restitution of the wells which the Philistine had unjustly taken
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from him, lest this should break off the treaty, but sat down silent
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under the injury. And to recompense him for this immediately he is enriched with
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a new well, which, because it suited so well to the occurrence of
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the day, he called by an old name Versheba, the well of the
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Oath. Esau's foolish marriage v. C. Seventeen sixty, verse thirty four.
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And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the the
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daughter of Hie the Hittite, and Bashamath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite,
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verse thirty five, which were of a grief of mind unto Isaac ann
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to Rebecca. Here is number one Esau's foolish marriage. Foolish, some think
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in marrying two wives together, for which perhaps is called a fornicator Hebrews Chapter
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twelve, verse sixteen, or rather in marrying Canaanites, who were strangers to
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the blessing of Abraham and subject to the curse of Noah. For which he
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is called profane. For hereby he intimated that he neither desired the blessing nor
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dreaded the curse of God. Number two the grief and trouble it created to
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his tender parents. One it grieved them that he married without asking, or
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at least without taking their advice and consent. See whose steps those children tread
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in, who either contend nor contradict their parents in disposing of themselves. Two
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it grieved them that he married the daughters of Hittites, who had no religion
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among them. For Isaac remembered his father's care concerning him, that he should,
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by no means marry a Canaanite. Three it should seem the wise he
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married were provoking in their conduct towards Isaac and Rebecca. Those children have little
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reason to expect the blessings of God who do that which is a grief of
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mind to their good parents. And of Chapter twenty six