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A Rebuke from a King
Commentators highlight the profound shame in this scene, as God uses Abimelech, a pagan king, to rebuke Isaac. John Calvin notes that when believers neglect God's voice, they deserve to be reproved even by unbelievers wrapped in 'the darkness of ignorance.' This serves as a powerful reminder that the sins of Christians can be obvious and shameful to a watching world.
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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 26:10
16th Century
Theologian
What is this thou hast done unto us? The Lord does not chastise Isaac as he deserved, perhaps because he was not so fully endowed with pat…
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John Gill
On Genesis 26:10
17th Century
Pastor
And Abimelech said, what is this you have done to us ?
&c.] By entertaining suspicions and jealousies of us as bad m…
Matthew Henry
On Genesis 26:6–11
17th Century
Minister
There is nothing in Isaac's denial of his wife to be imitated, nor even excused. The temptation of Isaac is the same as that which overcame his fat…