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And the LORD appeared unto him, and said, Go not down into Egypt; dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of:

New Defender's Study Bible Notes

26:2 the LORD appeared. This is apparently the first time in over fifty years that God had appeared to Isaac; here He confirmed the covenant made with Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah. It was also the first famine in the land of promise since Abram had gone down to Egypt over a century earlier. Isaac, unused to such testings, now needed special assurance.


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