Genesis 26

1 There was a famine in the country—not the one that happened before in Abraham’s time, but a later one. So Isaac moved to Gerar in the territory of Abimelech, king of the Philistines.

2 The Lord appeared to Isaac and told him, "Don’t go to Egypt—live in the country that I tell you to. 3 Stay here in this country. I will be with you and I will bless you, because I’m going to give you and your descendants all these lands. I will keep the solemn promise that I swore to Abraham your father. 4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your descendants, 5 because Abraham did what I told him, and kept my requirements, my commands, my regulations, and my laws."

6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar. 7 When the men there asked him about his wife, he told them, "She’s my sister," because he was afraid. He said to himself, "If I say she’s my wife, the men here will kill me to get Rebekah, because she’s so beautiful." 8 But later on, after he’d been there a while, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, happened to look out the window and saw Isaac lovingly fondling his wife Rebekah.