Genesis 26:5
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
American King James Version (AKJV)
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.
Webster's Revision
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
World English Bible
because Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my requirements, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."
English Revised Version (ERV)
because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
Clarke's Genesis 26:5 Bible Commentary
Abraham obeyed my voice - מימרי meimeri, my Word. See Genesis 15:1.
My charge - משמרתי mishmarti, from שמר shamar, he kept, observed, etc., the ordinances or appointments of God. These were always of two kinds:
1. Such as tended to promote moral improvement, the increase of piety, the improvement of the age, etc. And
2. Such as were typical of the promised seed, and the salvation which was to come by him.
For commandments, statutes, etc., the reader is particularly desired to refer to Leviticus 16:15, etc., where these things are all explained in the alphabetical order of the Hebrew words.
Wesley's Genesis 26:5 Bible Commentary
26:5 Abraham obeyed my voice - Do thou do so too, and the promise shall be sure to thee. A great variety of words is here used to express the Divine Will to which Abraham was obedient, my voice, my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws - Which may intimate, that Abraham's obedience was universal; he obeyed the original laws of nature, the revealed laws of divine worship, particularly that of circumcision, and all the extraordinary precepts God gave him, as that of quitting his country, and that (which some think is more especially referred to) the offering up of his son, which Isaac himself had reason enough to remember. Those only shall have the benefit of God's covenant with their parents, that tread the steps of their obedience.