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Genesis Chapter 26: Isaac, Abimelek and Rebekah
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domain, treaty, Beersheba, Philistines, blesses, tribute, Gerar, territory, death, sister, Abimelek, fondling, Jacob, water, significance, jealousy, brother, foreign, Isaac, Rebekah, kill
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Genesis chapter 26
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the story of           
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the son of Abraham, the father of           
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the story tells of Isaac living in the Philistine land of           
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to the west of Judah
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a                territory
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Isaac has a very attractive wife named               
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one day his neighbors come and ask him about Rebekah
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instead of telling them the truth that she is his wife, says she is his             
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he lies because he fears that the Philistine men living in Gerar would          him and take his wife
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one day                 , king of the Philistines, looks out his window and sees Isaac caressing Rebekah
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the way Isaac is carrying on with Rebekah is not what one would expect from a               
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there's a play on the words Isaac (Yitzchak) and playing/                 (metzachek)
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the king demands an explanation
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Isaac says he thought he might die because of her
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the king suggests that if one of his men had slept with Isaac's wife, then his whole              would have been guilty and vulnerable to some divine retribution
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so the king issues a decree: whoever touches Isaac or his wife shall be put to           
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Isaac then prospers among the                       
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becomes too wealthy
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the king finally asks him to move on
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everywhere Isaac goes, he has enviable good fortune
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discovers water sources
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provokes                 
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Isaac finally ends up in the south in the arid region of                   
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King Abimelek comes to visit him
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Isaac expect hostility from him
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Abimelek actually                him
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Isaac invites him to a feast
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they exchange oaths of peace
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later Isaac and his men find a            source
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the name of a well is "beer" and so Isaac names the place "Beersheba" which is a play on the words referring to the              that he had just made with Abimelek
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                         of this story
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we can imagine the descendants of Isaac would have taken great pride in retelling this
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the mother of our nation's history was so beautiful that they would have killed someone if anyone in the kingdom touched her
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political agenda
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this region, Beersheba, belongs to us
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the history of this town goes back a long way
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even the king himself came to this town to pay                to our ancestor and made an oath with him
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this well that was struck on that same day
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is shows that Isaac's clan has a claim to this                   
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