Genesis 26:27
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New International Version (©2011)
Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Why have you come here?" Isaac asked. "You obviously hate me, since you kicked me off your land."

English Standard Version (©2001)
Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?"

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me? You hated me and sent me away from you."

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Why have you come to see me," Isaac asked them, "since you hate me so much that you sent me away from you?"

NET Bible (©2006)
Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me and sent me away from you?"

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Isaac said unto them, Why come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?

American King James Version
And Isaac said to them, Why come you to me, seeing you 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?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Isaac said to them: Why are ye come to me, a man whom you hate, and have thrust out from you?

Darby Bible Translation
And Isaac said to them, Why are ye come to me, seeing ye hate me, and have driven me away from you?

English Revised Version
And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

Webster's Bible Translation
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?"

Young's 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?'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:26-33 When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him, Pr 16:7. Kings' hearts are in his hands, and when he pleases, he can turn them to favour his people. It is not wrong to stand upon our guard in dealing with those who have acted unfairly. But Isaac did not insist on the unkindnesses they had done him; he freely entered into friendship with them. Religion teaches us to be neighbourly, and, as much as in us lies, to live peaceable with all men. Providence smiled upon what Isaac did; God blessed his labours.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 27. - And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore - מַדּוּעַ, contr, from מָה יָדוּעַ, what is taught? - for what reason (cf. τί μαθών) - come ye to me, seeing (literally, and) ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? While animadverting to the personal hostility to which he had been subjected, Isaac says nothing about the wells of which he had been deprived: a second point of difference between this and the preceding narrative of Abraham's covenant with the Philistine king.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Isaac said unto them, wherefore come ye to me,.... What is the meaning of this visit? what has brought you hither? it cannot be from affection and friendship to me:

seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? the latter he mentions as a proof of the former; they envied his prosperity, and hated him on that account, and therefore expelled him their country, or at least would not suffer him to dwell among them; and still more glaring proofs were given of the hatred of the men of Gerar to him, not only by stopping up his father's wells, but by striving and contending with him about those he dug in the valley after he was gone from them; one of which he called "Sitnah", from their hatred of him.

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Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech
26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. 27And Isaac said to them, Why come you to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there be now an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you; …

Judges 11:7 Jephthah said to them, "Didn't you hate me and drive me from my father's house? Why do you come to me now, when you're in trouble?"
Genesis 26:28 They answered, "We saw clearly that the LORD was with you; so we said, 'There ought to be a sworn agreement between us'--between us and you. Let us make a treaty with you