Bible verse

Genesis 26:16

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

Genesis 26:16 · BSB

Genesis 26:16 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 26.

12 Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

13 and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

14 He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

15 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

17 So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.

18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

19 Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

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Genesis 26:16 in other translations

KJV

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

ASV

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

ERV

And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

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