Isaac and Abimelek^(A)

26 Now there was a famine in the land^(B)—besides the previous famine in Abraham’s time—and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines^(C) in Gerar.^(D)

³ Stay in this land for a while,^(A) and I will be with you^(B) and will bless you.^(C) For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands^(D) and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.^(E)

⁵ because Abraham obeyed me^(A) and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees^(B) and my instructions.^(C)”

¹⁵ So all the wells^(A) that his father’s servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up,^(B) filling them with earth.

¹⁸ Isaac reopened the wells^(A) that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.

²⁴ That night the Lord appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham.^(A) Do not be afraid,^(B) for I am with you;^(C) I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants^(D) for the sake of my servant Abraham.”^(E)