Gerar: A region; lodging-place, a very ancient town and district in the south
border of Palestine, which was ruled over by a king named Abimelech
(Genesis 10:19; 20:1,2) Abraham sojourned here, and perhaps Isaac was born
in this place. Both of these patriarchs were guilty of the sin of
here denying their wives, and both of them entered into a treaty with
the king before they departed to Beersheba
(Genesis 21:23-34; 26:1)ff It
seems to have been a rich pastoral country
(2 Chronicles 14:12-15) Isaac here
reaped an hundred-fold, and was blessed of God
(Genesis 26:12) The "valley
of Gerar"
(Genesis 26:17) was probably the modern Wady el-Jerdr.
