Isaac at Gerar

A famine hit Canaan and Isaac thought about heading down to Egypt, but God said 'stay here, the covenant is for this land.' So he settled in Gerar with the Philistines. When the men there started checking out Rebekah, Isaac told them she was his sister — straight running his father's playbook from chapter 20. King Abimelech spotted them being too coupley through a window and called Isaac out: 'bro, you almost got us all cursed.' Isaac stayed anyway and God blessed him so hard with crops and herds that the Philistines got nervous and asked him to leave. Isaac kept digging wells — one called Esek ('contention'), another Sitnah ('enmity') — until he found one nobody fought him for and named it Rehoboth ('room'). He eventually moved to Beersheba and made peace with Abimelech.

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