Bible Strands
Genesis 26:12
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Narrative, no speaker. Isaac is in the land of Gerar following Abimelech's public warning (v.11), and the verse sits between that protection and the statement that he grew exceedingly wealthy (v.13).
The words — מֵאָה (me'ah), "one hundred," used here as a multiplier: a hundredfold yield in a single year.
The thread — Mark 4:8 lists "a hundredfold" as the highest yield in the parable of the sower; Genesis 26:3 is the specific promise Isaac is fulfilling.
Why it lands — The narrative attributes the yield to the LORD's blessing, not to Isaac's technique or the soil's quality. A reader is asked to hold that the extraordinary result is credited to divine action, not human effort.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.
Cross-references
- Mark 4:8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop—one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”
- Genesis 26:3 Stay in this land as a foreigner, and I will be with you and bless you. For I will give all these lands to you and your offspring, and I will confirm the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
- Genesis 24:1 By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
- Genesis 24:35 “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.
- Zechariah 8:12 “For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.
- 2 Corinthians 9:10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.
- Job 42:12 So the LORD blessed Job’s latter days more than his first. He owned 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.
- Psalms 67:6 The earth has yielded its harvest; God, our God, blesses us.
- Ecclesiastes 11:6 Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.
- Galatians 6:7 Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.