Parallel Verses
Amplified
Isaac said to them, “Why have you [people] come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”
New American Standard Bible
Isaac said to them, “
King James Version
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
Holman Bible
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you.”
International Standard Version
"Why have you come to see me," Isaac asked them, "since you hate me so much that you sent me away from you?"
A Conservative Version
And Isaac said to them, Why have ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
American Standard Version
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
Bible in Basic English
And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?
Darby Translation
And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have driven me away from you?
Julia Smith Translation
And Isaak will say to them, Wherefore came ye to me, and ye hated me, and will send me away from you?
King James 2000
And Isaac said unto them, Why come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?
Lexham Expanded Bible
And Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."
Modern King James verseion
And Isaac said to them, Why do you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Isaac said unto them, "Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me and have put me away from you?"
NET Bible
Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."
New Heart English Bible
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
The Emphasized Bible
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore have ye come in mite me, seeing that, ye, hated me, and sent me away from you?
Webster
And Isaac said to them, Why come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
World English Bible
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
Youngs Literal Translation
and Isaac saith unto them, 'Wherefore have ye come unto me, and ye have hated me, and ye send me away from you?'
Themes
Alliances » Instances of » Isaac and abimelech
Covenant » Instances of » Abimelech and isaac
Diplomacy » Instances of » Of abimelech
Oath » Used in solemnizing covenants » Between isaac and abimelech
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Genesis 26:27
Verse Info
Context Readings
Covenant With Abimelech
26 Then Abimelech came to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath, his [close friend and confidential] adviser, and Phicol, the commander of his army. 27 Isaac said to them, “Why have you [people] come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?” 28 They said, “We see clearly that the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘There should now be an oath between us [with a curse for the one who breaks it], that is, between you and us, and let us make a covenant (binding agreement, solemn promise) with you,
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Cross References
Genesis 26:16
Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from here, because you are far too powerful for us.”
Judges 11:7
But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, “Did you not hate me and drive me from the house of my father? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?”
Genesis 26:14
he owned flocks and herds and a great household [with a number of servants], and the Philistines envied him.
Acts 7:9
“The [ten elder] patriarchs, overwhelmed with jealousy, sold [their younger brother] Joseph into [slavery in] Egypt; but God was with him,
Acts 7:14
Then Joseph sent and invited Jacob his father and all his relatives to come to him, seventy-five persons in all.
Acts 7:27
But the man who was injuring his neighbor pushed Moses away, saying, ‘Who appointed you ruler and judge over us?
Acts 7:35
“This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ is the very one whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, with the [protecting and helping] hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the thorn bush.
Revelation 3:9