Genesis 26:5

5 because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”

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Genesis 26:5 in Other Translations

KJV

5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

ESV

5 because Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

NLT

5 I will do this because Abraham listened to me and obeyed all my requirements, commands, decrees, and instructions.”

MSG

5 And why? Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge - my commands, my guidelines, my teachings."

CSB

5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My mandate, My commands, My statutes, and My instructions."

Genesis 26:5 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 26:5

Because that Abraham obeyed my voice
In all things, and particularly in offering up his son at his command: and kept my charge;
whatever was given him in charge to observe; this, as Aben Ezra thinks, is the general, of which the particulars follow: my commandments, my statutes, and my laws;
whether moral, ceremonial, or civil and judicial; all and everyone which God enjoined him, he was careful to observe. Here seems to be something wanting, for the words are not to be joined with the preceding, as if Abraham's obedience was the cause of the above promises made to Isaac, or to himself: but this is mentioned rather as an example to Isaac, and to stir him up to do the like, as if it was said, because or seeing that Abraham thy father did so and so, do thou likewise.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Genesis 26:5 In-Context

3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

5 because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I required of him, keeping my commands, my decrees and my instructions.”

6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”

Cross References 3

1. S Genesis 18:19; Genesis 22:16
2. Psalms 119:80,112; Ezekiel 18:21
3. Lev 18:4,5,26; Leviticus 19:19,37; Leviticus 20:8,22; Leviticus 25:18; Leviticus 26:3; Numbers 15:40; Deuteronomy 4:40; Deuteronomy 6:2; Deuteronomy 11:1; 1 Kings 2:3