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 ...

They arrive in Gerar, on their way down to Egypt; but God tells them to stay there and not leave the Land of Israel. In Gerar, they become extremely successful, to the point that the local people ...

Therefore, when there was a shortage of rain in the land of Canaan, its residents would migrate to Egypt. Isaac decided to follow suit and turned to the Philistine settlement of Gerar, located on ...

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 ...

In Gerar, God revealed Himself ... Avraham “looked to Sodom and Gomorrah…and he saw (Hebrew: ra’ah) the smoke of the land rose like smoke of a furnace” (Genesis 19:28). Avraham ...

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