Quotes about Isaac
Later, Isaac prayed to the LORD on behalf of his wife, because she was barren. And the LORD heard his prayer, and his wife Rebekah conceived.
— Genesis 25:21
After this, his brother came out grasping Esau’s heel; so he was named Jacob. And Isaac was sixty years old when the twins were born.
— Genesis 25:26
Because Isaac had a taste for wild game, he loved Esau; but Rebekah loved Jacob.
— Genesis 25:28
Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
— Genesis 26:1
The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.
— Genesis 26:2
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
— Genesis 26:6
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
— Genesis 26:8
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
— Genesis 26:12
So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
— Genesis 26:17
Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
— Genesis 26:18
Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
— Genesis 26:19
But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
— Genesis 26:20