Genesis 26:12 meaning and explanation

Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

Genesis 26:12, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaac is living as a foreigner in Gerar under the Philistine king Abimelech, having just been warned by God to stay in the land rather than flee to Egypt during a famine. In that vulnerable setting, Isaac sows seed and reaps a hundredfold in the same year, an extraordinary yield that the text credits directly to the LORD's blessing.

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