Genesis 26:15

American Standard Version (1901)

Now all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

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  • Gen 21:30 : 30 And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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  • Gen 26:16-22
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    88%

    16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

    17 And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

    18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

    19 And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

    20 And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

    21 And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

    22 And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

  • Gen 26:12-14
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    12 And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him.

    13 And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:

    14 and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him.

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

    33 And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

  • 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

  • 1 And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, unto Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    25 And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of Jehovah, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.

    26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.

    27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore are ye come unto me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

  • 30 And he said, These seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that it may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2 And he looked, and, behold, a well in the field, and, lo, three flocks of sheep lying there by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and the stone upon the well's mouth was great.

    3 And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in its place.

  • 32 So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

  • 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

  • 5 And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

  • 34 And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.

  • 11 And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son: and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

  • 15 And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

  • 18 For Jehovah had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • 8 And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

  • 4 So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

  • 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

  • 8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.