Covenant with Abimelech

26 Then aAbimelech came to him from Gerar 1with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.

27 Isaac said to them, “aWhy have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”

28 They said, “We see plainly athat the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between 1you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,

29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you 1and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the ablessed of the Lord.’ ”

30 Then ahe made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

31 In the morning they arose early and 1aexchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.

32 Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac’s servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

33 So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is aBeersheba to this day.