“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.”
Now there was a famine in the land — besides the previous famine in Abraham's time — and Isaac went to Abimelek king of the Philistines in Gerar. The same pattern that drove Abraham to Egypt in Genesis 12 and then to Gerar in Genesis 20 now appears for Isaac: famine, movement toward Philistine territory. The narrator notes this is different from the famine of Abraham's time — a new generation, a new test, but the same kind of test. The application: the tests that formed previous generations tend to appear in subsequent ones. The famine is different; the temptation it creates is the same.
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