Matthew Poole and continuators on Genesis 26:12

12 Then Isaac sowed in that land , and received in the same year an hundred fold : and the LORD blessed him.

Either in the grounds which he had hired of the right owners; or in some grounds which lay neglected and therefore were free to the first occupier; which was not strange in that age of the World, when the Inhabitants of Countreys were not so numerous as afterward.

(i. e.) An hundred times as much as he sowed. The same degree of increase is intimated, Mitth. 13. 8. and affirmed sometimes of other places by Heathen Writers, but then it was in a better soil and season then this was; for this was a time of Famine or scarcity.

Marginal references: Heb. [illegible: 1 word].