Genesis 26:27
Good News Translation
So Isaac asked, "Why have you now come to see me, when you were so unfriendly to me before and made me leave your country?"

New Revised Standard Version
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

Contemporary English Version
When they arrived, Isaac asked, "Why are you here? Didn't you send me away because you hated me?"

New American Bible
Isaac asked them, “Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have driven me away from you?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

seeing.

Genesis 26:14,16 And he had possessions of sheep and of herds, and a very great family. Wherefore the Palestines envying him, . . .

Judges 11:7 And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father's house, and now you are come to me, constrained by necessity?

Acts 7:9,14,27,35 And the patriarchs, through envy, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him, . . .

Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will bring of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but do lie. Behold, I will make them to come and adore before thy feet. And they shall know that I have loved thee.

sent me.

Genesis 26:16 Insomuch that Abimelech himself said to Isaac: Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.

Context
Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech
26To which place when Abimelech, and Ochozath his friend, and Phicol chief captain of his soldiers, came from Gerara, 27Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?28And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,…
Cross References
Judges 11:7
And he answered them: Are not you the men that hated me, and cast me out of my father's house, and now you are come to me, constrained by necessity?

Genesis 26:28
And they answered: We saw that the Lord is with thee, and therefore we said: Let there be an oath between us, and let us make a covenant,

Genesis 26:26
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