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Isaac here into a valley, than sit high to be the
butt of envy and ill-will.
15 For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days
of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much
mightier than we.
17 And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of
Gerar, and dwelt there.
18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in
the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
His constancy and continuance in his business
still.
1. He kept up his husbandry, and continued
industrious to find wells of water, and to fit
them for his use, Ge 26:18, &c. Though he had
grown very rich, yet he was as solicitous as
ever about the state of his flocks, and still
looked well to his herds; when men grow great,
they must take heed of thinking themselves too
big and too high for their business. Though he
was driven from the conveniences he had had,
and could not follow his husbandry with the
same ease and advantage as before, yet he set
himself to make the best of the country he had
come into, which it is every man's prudence to
do. Observe,