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Genesis 26:27
Genesis 26:27 is verse 27 of Genesis chapter 26, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
King James Version
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
World English Bible
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
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Genesis 26:25–29 · Berean Standard Bible
25 So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.
26 Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.
27 “Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
28 “We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
29 that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 26:14He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.
Genesis 26:16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
Judges 11:7Jephthah replied to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and expel me from my father’s house? Why then have you come to me now, when you are in distress?”
Acts 7:9Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
Acts 7:14Then Joseph sent for his father Jacob and all his relatives, seventy-five in all.
Acts 7:27But the man who was abusing his neighbor pushed Moses aside and said, ‘Who made you ruler and judge over us?
Acts 7:35This Moses, whom they had rejected with the words, ‘Who made you ruler and judge?’ is the one whom God sent to be their ruler and redeemer through the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
Revelation 3:9Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan, who claim to be Jews but are liars instead. I will make them come and bow down at your feet, and they will know that I love you.