to ascend · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Beer-sheba
בְּאֵ֥רbe.'Er
H884
Beer-Sheba · proper noun, a place name
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Cross-references
Genesis 21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
Genesis 46:1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land…
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:12-25
Here we have,
I. The tokens of God's good-will to Isaac. He blessed him, and prospered him, and made all that he had to thrive under his hands. 1. His corn multiplied strangely, Gen 26:12. He had no land of his own, but took land of the Philistines, and sowed it; and (be it observed for the encouragement of poor tenants, that occupy other people's lands, and are honest and industrious) God blessed him with a great increase. He reaped a hundred fold; and there seems to be an emphasis laid upon the time: it was that same year when there was a famine in the land; while others scarcely reaped at all, he reaped thus plentifully. See Isa 65:13, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry, Psa 3…
Isaac digged again the wells of water--The naming of wells by Abraham, and the hereditary right of his family to the property, the change of the names by the Philistines to obliterate the traces of their origin, the restoration of the names by Isaac, and the contests between the respective shepherds to the exclusive possession of the water, are circumstances that occur among the natives in those regions as frequently in the present day as in the time of Isaac.
Adam Clarke on Genesis 26:21
They dug another well - Never did any man more implicitly follow the Divine command, Resist not evil, than Isaac; whenever he found that his work was likely to be a subject of strife and contention, he gave place, and rather chose to suffer wrong than to have his own peace of mind disturbed. Thus he overcame evil with good.
John Gill on Genesis 26:23
And he went up from thence to Beersheba. From the place he last, removed unto Beersheba; the famine being over, he returns to the place where he and his rather formerly lived, Genesis 21:33.
John Calvin on Genesis 26:23
The Church Fathers
"Isaac therefore went up to the well of the oath, and the Lord appeared to him." The going up of the Law we have said even before to be the ornament of the temple and of those divine services which were performed there. The increase of the prophets too can be named a going up of the Law; and for that reason perhaps he is said to have gone up to the well of the oath and there the Lord to have appeared to him. For through the prophets "the Lord swore, and will not repent, that he himself is a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek." "At the well" therefore "of the oath" God was seen by him, confirming the promises to come upon him.
It is written in the prophet, speaking in the person of the Lord: "and in the hands of the prophets I was made like." This saying indicates that, although our Lord Jesus Christ is one according to his substance and is nothing other than the Son of God, nevertheless in the figures and forms of the Scriptures he is displayed as varied and diverse. For example, as I recall we set forth in earlier passages that he himself was in the type of Isaac, when he was being offered for a holocaust, yet he himself also held the form of the ram. I say further that he is also displayed in the angel who spoke to Abraham and says to him: "do not lay your hand upon the boy" — since again he says to him: "because you have done this thing, in blessing I will bless you." He is called the sheep or the lamb that is sacrificed at the Passover, and he himself is signified as the shepherd of the sheep; and the high priest who offers the sacrifice is nonetheless described as he himself. He is named the bridegroom, inasmuch as he is the Word of God, and again, inasmuch as he is wisdom, he himself is named the bride; as the prophet also says in his person: "as on a bridegroom he set a mitre upon me, and as a bride he adorned me with ornament," and many other things, which it would be long to pursue for now. Just as, therefore, the Lord himself, according to place and time, accommodates the form of himself to each and every occasion, so also the saints, who bore his type, are to be believed to have enacted the figures of mysteries according to places and times and occasions; as we now also see happening in Isaac, concerning whom it has been read to us: "he went up," it says, "from there to the well of the oath, and the Lord appeared to him that night, and said: I am the God of Abraham your father, fear not. For I am with you, and I will bless you, and I will multiply your seed on account of Abraham your father." The Apostle Paul has set forth for us two figures of this Isaac: one, by which he said that Ishmael indeed, the son of Hagar, held the form of the people according to the flesh, but Isaac the form of the people which is from faith; the other, by which he says: "he did not say: and to seeds, as in many, but: to your seed, as in one, which is Christ." Isaac therefore holds both the figure of the people and of Christ. But that Christ, inasmuch as he is the Word of God, speaks not…
Dictionary and topics
Beer-Sheba · .The place where — .The place where
Isaac · .Moves away to the valley of Gerar, afterward — .Moves away to the valley of Gerar, afterward
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba. Next follows a more abundant consolation, and one affording effectual refreshment to the mind of the holy man. In the tranquil enjoyment of the well, he acknowledges the favor which God had showed him: but forasmuch as one word of God weighs more with the faithful than the accumulated mass of all good things, we cannot doubt that Isaac received this oracle more joyfully than if a thousand rivers of nectar had flowed unto him: and truly Moses designedly commemorates in lofty terms this act of favor, that the Lord encouraged him by his own word, (Genesis 26:24;) whence we may learn, in ascribing proper honor to each of the other gifts of God, still alw…
Isaac's Journey to Beersheba. - Here, where Abraham had spent a long time (Gen 21:33.), Jehovah appeared to him during the night and renewed the promises already given; upon which, Isaac built an altar and performed a solemn service. Here his servants also dug a well near to the tents.
Tyndale Open Study Notes on Genesis 26:23-25
At Beersheba, . . . the Lord appeared to Isaac to confirm his covenant (cp. 21:31-33). Isaac responded in faith as his father had done by building an altar to the Lord and proclaiming the Lord’s identity and nature (see study note on 12:8; 21:33).
Rashi on Genesis 26:10
והבאת עלינו אשם AND YOU WOULD HAVE BROUGHT GUILT UPON US — If he had lain with her already, YOU WOULD HAVE BROUGHT GUILT UPON US.
