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The Covenant Continues
Commentators stress that this moment is a formal renewal of the covenant God made with Abraham. God assures Isaac that the foundational promises—His presence, the land of Canaan, and a multitude of descendants—are now officially his inheritance, confirming his role as the next patriarch in God's redemptive plan.
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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 26:3–4
19th Century
Bishop
These countries. —On the archaic form of the pronoun these, see Note on Genesis 19:8. The countries are enumerated in Gen…
John Gill
On Genesis 26:3
17th Century
Pastor
Sojourn in this land
The land of Canaan, where he now was; either in Gerar, which though in the land of the Philisti…
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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 …