7.1.1 Gen. 26: Isaac: Promise, Endangerment of the Ancestress, Dispute about Well

Renewed promise and renewed blessing stand at the beginning of the  reports about Isaac. He is in dire need of both, because he too is in  danger because of his pretty Rebekah (like Abraham Gen. 12 and 20). If  this motive appears here already a third time, then this has nothing to do  with literary sources and copies, but surely with the fact that this danger  existed nevertheless just really. These were by no means golden times  in which the fathers’ stories were set. In addition, there are bitter  permanent disputes about the access to fresh water. How topical the  reports of the Bible from the oldest time can be!