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Genesis 26:14

Genesis 26:14 is verse 14 of Genesis chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

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King James Version

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

World English Bible

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

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Genesis 26:12–16 · Berean Standard Bible

12 Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

13 and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

14 He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

15 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 12:16

He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

Job 1:3

and he owned 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, 500 female donkeys, and a very large number of servants. Job was the greatest man of all the people of the East.

Job 42:12

So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

Psalms 112:3

Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.

Psalms 144:13

Our storehouses will be full, supplying all manner of produce; our flocks will bring forth thousands, tens of thousands in our fields.

Psalms 144:14

Our oxen will bear great loads. There will be no breach in the walls, no going into captivity, and no cry of lament in our streets.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.

Genesis 37:11

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

1 Samuel 18:9

And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

Job 5:2

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Psalms 112:10

The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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