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spitefully done. Because they had not flocks of
their own to water at these wells, they would
not leave them for the use of others; so absurd
a thing is malice. And it was perfidiously done,
contrary to the covenant of friendship they had
made with Abraham, Ge 21:31, 32. No bonds
will hold ill-nature.
(2.) They expelled him out of their country, Ge
26:16, 17. The king of Gerar began to look
upon him with a jealous eye. Isaac's house was
like a court, and his riches and retinue eclipsed
Abimelech's; and therefore he must go further
off. They were weary of his neighbourhood,
because they saw that the Lord blessed him;
whereas, for that reason, they should the rather
have courted his stay, that they also might be
blessed for his sake. Isaac does not insist upon
the bargain he had made with them for the
lands he held, nor upon his occupying and
improving them, nor does he offer to contest
with them by force, though he had become very
great, but very peaceably departs thence further
from the royal city, and perhaps to a part of the
country less fruitful. Note, We should deny
ourselves both in our rights and in our
conveniences, rather than quarrel: a wise and a
good man will rather retire into obscurity, like