Genesis 26:1-2

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Isaac Settles in Gerar

26 Now there was a famine in the land [of Canaan], besides the previous famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Gerar, to ^[a]Abimelech king of the Philistines. ²The Lord appeared to him and said, “Do not go down to Egypt; stay in the land of which I will tell you.

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Footnotes

Genesis 26:1 This is not the Abimelech of ch 20. Abimelech may actually be a dynastic title, like Caesar or Pharaoh, instead of a proper name. The events recounted in chapters 20 and 26 are separated by almost a hundred years.