God Establishes His Covenant with Isaac

26:1-5

26 Now there was another severe food shortage in the region. This was a different shortage from the one that had happened years before, while Abraham was still alive. So Isaac and his family went to the city of Gerar to ask for help from King Abimelech, who ruled over the Philistines. 2 Then Yahweh appeared to Isaac and commanded him, “Do not go to the country of Egypt, rather stay in this land where I tell you to live. 3 Live as a foreigner in this region, and I will stay with you and prosper you. In fact, I will give all the surrounding regions to you and your descendants, and I will continue to keep the vow that I made to your father Abraham 4 that I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky. I will also give them all these regions. In fact, through your descendants I will bless all the people groups on the earth. 5 I will do all that because Abraham obeyed me and did everything that I ever commanded him to do.”