Genesis 26:25 - Exposition

And he ( i . e . Isaac, in grateful response to the Divine Promiser who had appeared to him) builded an altar there ,—the first instance of altar building ascribed to Isaac; "those erected by his father no doubt still remaining in the other places where he sojourned" (Inglis) and called upon the name of the Lord,— i.e. publicly celebrated his worship in the midst of his household ( vide on Genesis 12:7 , Genesis 12:8 )— and pitched his tent there (the place being now to him doubly hallowed by the appearance of the Lord to himself as well as to his father): and there Isaac's servants digged a well —a necessary appendage to a flockmaster's settlement.