The text emphasizes that the people of Gerar had previously sought to harm Avraham by closing his wells, suggesting that the farmers of the land held special contempt for Avraham and his business ...

While Isaac does move from Gerar, he does so for a logistical reason; the land cannot accommodate his livestock and the livestock of others.

However, with success came the jealousy of the Philistines, the inhabitants of Gerar. As Isaac’s servants dug wells in the southern part of the land of Canaan – where water was scarce and ...

There is a strange passage in the life of Isaac, ominous in its foreshadowing of much of later Jewish history. Like Abraham, Isaac finds himself forced by famine to go to Gerar, in the land of the ...

During a famine in the land, Isaac goes to see Abimelech, king of the Philistines in Gerar (located in the general area of Gaza).

They live with their four children, in a Garden of Eden they created in the Northern Negev, between Netivot and Ofakim, in what was the biblical Land of Gerar.

Soon after Avraham faced a similar danger in Egypt, and immediately after he saw the ramification of the evil in Sodom and Gomorrah, he mistakenly assumed the same about the people of Gerar.