So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
Here we have, I. The tokens of God's good-will to Isaac. He blessed him, and prospered him, and made all that he had to thrive under his hands. 1. His corn multiplied strangely, Gen 26:12. He had no land of his own, but took land of the Philistines, and sowed it; and (be it observed for the encouragement of poor tenants, that occupy other people's...
Commenting on Genesis 26:12-25
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father,.... This seems to refer to the same wells made mention of in Gen 26:15, since it follows: for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; these were what Abraham's servants had dug, when he lived at Gerar, and which the Philistines durst not...
valley of Gerar--torrent-bed or wady, a vast undulating plain, unoccupied and affording good pasture.