Gerar

Gerar was a Philistine town and its surrounding district in the Negev, ruled by a king named Abimelech, where both Abraham and later Isaac sojourned and both, in turn, misrepresented their wives as sisters out of fear. Isaac prospered greatly at Gerar, reaping a hundredfold harvest and reopening wells his father had dug, before disputes over water led him to move on toward Beersheba. Excavations at Tel Haror in the western Negev, a leading candidate for the site, have uncovered a substantial Middle Bronze Age fortified city consistent with the patriarchal setting.