Genesis 26

I've always thought of Isaac as a placeholder. He's the least-mentioned patriarch,and the little he does just makes him a rerun of his father. There's evidence that he wasn't even a worshiper ofGod.

Yet he got the same promise Abraham did. The exact same one. God took this otherwise undistinguished man and not only blessed and protected him, but tied their names together. Later in the OT, he would be known as the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.