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A Test of Faith
Commentators like John Calvin and Matthew Henry emphasize that the famine was a severe trial for Isaac. God had promised him the land, yet he faced starvation in it. This event serves as a powerful example of how God tests and refines the faith of His people, teaching them to trust His promises even when circumstances seem to contradict them.
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Albert Barnes
On Genesis 26:1–35
18th Century
Theologian
משׁמרת mı̂shmeret — “charge, ordinance.”
עשׂק ‛êśeq — Esek, “strife.”
שׂטנה śı̂ṭnâh<…
Charles Ellicott
On Genesis 26:1–35
19th Century
Bishop
John Calvin
On Genesis 26:1
16th Century
Theologian
And there was a famine. Moses relates that Isaac was tried by nearly the same kind of temptation as that through which his father Abraham …
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John Gill
On Genesis 26:1
17th Century
Pastor
And there was a famine in the land
In the land of Canaan, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it; beside…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 26:1–5
17th Century
Minister
Isaac had been trained in a believing dependence on the Divine grant of the land of Canaan to him and his heirs; and now that there is a famine in …