Scripture · Old Testament
Genesis 26:16
Genesis 26:16 is verse 16 of Genesis chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
King James Version
And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
World English Bible
Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Read in context
Genesis 26:14–18 · Berean Standard Bible
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.”
17 So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
18 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.
Read all of Genesis 26Hebrew words
Data created by STEPBible.org based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Study Genesis 26:16
Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 1:9“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us.