Genesis 26:27
“And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?”
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee;
That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as we have done unto thee nothing but good, and have sent thee away in peace: thou art now the blessed of the Lord.
Cross-References
“And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.”
“Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.”
“And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father’s house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?”
“This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.”
“For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.”