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BrLXXΚαὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς Ἰσαὰκ, ἵνα τί ἤλθετε πρός με; ὑμεῖς δὲ ἐμισήσατέ με, καὶ ἐξαπεστείλατέ με ἀφʼ ὑμῶν. (Kai eipen autois Isaʼak, hina ti aʸlthete pros me; humeis de emisaʸsate me, kai exapesteilate me afʼ humōn. )
BrTrAnd Isaac said to them, Wherefore have ye come to me? whereas ye hated me, and sent me away from you.
ULTAnd Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and you sent me away from you?”
USTIsaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, especially since you have been hostile toward me and forced me to move away from you?”
BSB § “Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
OEBIsaac said to them, ‘Why have you come to me, since you hated me and have driven me away from you?’
WEBBEIsaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
JPSAnd Isaac said unto them: 'Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?'
ASVAnd Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
DRAIsaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?
YLTand Isaac saith unto them, 'Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?'
DrbyAnd Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have driven me away from you?
RVAnd Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
WbstrAnd Isaac said to them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
KJB-1769And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? (And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye/you_all to me, seeing ye/you_all hate me, and have sent me away from you? )
KJB-1611And Isaac saide vnto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and haue sent me away from you? (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)
BshpsAnd Isahac sayde vnto them: wherfore come ye to me, seyng ye hate me, and haue put me away from you? (And Isahac said unto them: wherefore come ye/you_all to me, seeing ye/you_all hate me, and have put me away from you?)
GnvaTo whom Izhak sayd, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate mee and haue put mee away from you? (To whom Izhak said, Wherefore come ye/you_all to me, seeing ye/you_all hate me and have put me away from you? )
CvdlBut Isaac sayde vnto them: Wherfore come ye to me? seynge ye hate me, and haue put me awaye from you? (But Isaac said unto them: Wherefore come ye/you_all to me? seeing ye/you_all hate me, and have put me away from you?)
WyclIsaac spak to hem, What camen ye to me, a man whom ye hatiden, and puttiden awei fro you? (Isaac spake to them, What came ye/you_all to me, a man whom ye/you_all hatiden, and puttiden away from you?)
LuthAber Isaak sprach zu ihnen: Warum kommt ihr zu mir? Hasset ihr mich doch und habt mich von euch getrieben. (But Isaak spoke to to_them: Warum comes you/their/her to mir? Hasset you/their/her me though/but and have me from you getrieben.)
ClVglocutus est eis Isaac: Quid venistis ad me, hominem quem odistis, et expulistis a vobis? (locutus it_is to_them Isaac: What venistis to me, hominem which odistis, and expulistis from vobis? )
26:1-35 In this digression from Jacob’s story, Isaac’s prosperity (ch 26) shows that the blessing had passed to him (cp. 25:11) despite his failures of faith.
Isaac probably wants to know why King Abimelech and his men are there, but this may also be a rhetorical question that shows his strong emotion. Alternate translation: “Why did you come here,”
וְאַתֶּם֙ שְׂנֵאתֶ֣ם אֹתִ֔י
and,you_all hate DOM=me
Alternate translation: “especially since you have treated me hatefully” or “especially since you have been hateful toward me”
וַתְּשַׁלְּח֖וּנִי מֵאִתְּכֶֽם
and,sent_~_away,me from,,you_all
Alternate translation: “and forced me to go away from you!”
While Isaac’s family was at Beersheba, Jacob stole Esau’s birthright, and Esau made plans to kill Jacob once his father had passed away. When Rebekah found out about Esau’s plan, she told Jacob to flee to her family in Paddan-aram (also called Aram-naharaim, meaning “Aram of the two rivers”) and garnered Isaac’s support by telling him that she was concerned that Jacob might marry one of the local Canaanite woman. So Isaac sent Jacob to Paddan-aram to find a wife there, much like Abraham had sent his servant Eleazar to this area to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:10). Jacob left Beersheba and headed for Haran in Paddan-aram, and as night fell he stopped at a town called Luz. There he slept with his head resting on a stone and dreamed of a staircase to heaven with angels ascending and descending it. The Lord also spoke to him and reaffirmed his promise to give Canaan to his descendants. The Lord also promised to bring Jacob back to Canaan from Haran. When Jacob woke from his sleep, he declared the place to be the house of God and renamed it Bethel (meaning, “house of God”). Later Bethel appears to have served as an early location of the Ark of the Covenant in the Promised Land (Judges 20; see “The Ark of the Covenant in the Promised Land” map). From Bethel Jacob continued on to the general area of Haran, likely following the same route in reverse that he followed upon his return journey to Canaan from Haran (Genesis 31-35). Sometime before Jacob returned, however, Esau moved away from Canaan and settled in Seir (Genesis 32:3; 36:1-8; ; see “Edom and the Land of Seir” map).
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
