Like Father Like Son, Part Two

Genesis 26:12-35

12-13: God blessed Isaac
Isaac’s occupation -crop grower and herdsman

14-15: The Philistines filled all of Abraham’s wells that he had dug, years before, with dirt because they didn’t like Isaac

16-17: Isaac moves to the Valley of Gerar

18: Isaac digs wells here after moving. Isaac is very much like his father, Abraham, in trying to keep peace with other herdsmen. (Lot)

19: Isaac found water and named the wells. The Philistines kept claiming the wells as their own.

23: Isaac went to Beer-sheba. This is the same place that God came to Abraham and told him of the covenant. Abraham built an altar and worshiped the Lord here.

25: Isaac built an altar here too, to worship the Lord.

26-29: Abimalech didn’t want Isaac there. He sees how God is blessing him and is afraid of him. Abimalech wants to make a covenant with him to keep peace.

30-33: The covenant was made for peace, Isaac leaves the area

34-35: Easu, Isaac’s son, takes a Canaanite to be his wife which makes Isaac and Rebekah sad. Esau is going against what his parents have taught him.