Genesis 26:1-6
And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. ²And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of: ³Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father; ⁴And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; ⁵Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
⁶And Isaac dwelt in Gerar: (KJV)

Philistine = P@lishtiy {pel-ish-tee'}
= immigrants; These people were descendants of Mizraim, a son of Ham, who immigrated to Philista, on the western seacoast of Canaan.

Gerar = G@rar {gher-awr'}
= a lodging place; south of Gaza; today's ‘Umm.'

1. Isaac lies about his wife to Abimelech.
        
2. Isaac remains in that land as Jehovah told him to & he is blessed greatly.

Genesis 26:7-12
And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon. ⁸And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife. ⁹ And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die for her. ¹⁰ And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife, and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us. ¹¹ And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
¹²Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him. (KJV)

3. Isaac is envied by the Philistines because The LORD blessed him greatly. They gave him trouble over the wells of water he had that had been previously dug by Abraham.
        
4. The wells have names of meaning:

Esek = 'Eseq {ay'-sek}
= "contention." Because there was strife about it.

Sitnah = Sitnah{sit-naw'} = strife; hatred.

Rehoboth = R@chobowth {rekh-o-both'}
= wide places of streets; room.

5. Isaac moves into the area of Beersheba where Jehovah appears unto him.

Genesis 26:23-25
And he went up from thence to Beersheba. ²⁴And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake. ²⁵And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well. (KJV)

6. A covenant is made between Abimelech & Isaac to live in peace. They swore by oath.
        
7. During the same day of the oath, Isaac's servants found water where they dug.

Genesis 26:32-33
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water. ³³And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. (KJV)

Shebah = Shib-'ah {shib-aw'}
= an oath.

Beersheba = B@'er Sheba' {be-ayr'-sheh'-bah}
= well of the sevenfold oath; A city in the south edge of Israel.

8. Esau takes two wives from among the Hittites in order to hurt his parents.

Genesis 26:34-35
And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: ³⁵Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. (KJV)

Judith = Y@huwdiyth {Yeh-ho-deeth'}
= "Jewess," or "praised." This word also is defined as the Hebrew speaking-language.

Bashemath = Bosmath {Bos-math'}
= spice; fragrance; sweet smell.

Hittite = Chittiy {khit-tee'}
= descendant of Ham, second son of Canaan.

grief = morah {mo-raw'}
= bitterness; grief. Bitterness of spirit. C/f. In speaking of the spiritual condition of Jerusalem:

Ezekiel 16:1-3
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, ²Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, ³And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. (KJV)