Genesis 26:18

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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  • Gen 21:31 : 31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
  • Num 32:38 : 38 and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that give gifts for another [god] : Their drink-offerings of blood will I not offer, Nor take their names upon my lips.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will take away the names of the Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be mentioned by their name.
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

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  • Gen 26:15-17
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    15 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.

    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.

  • Gen 26:19-22
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    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 26:31-33
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    31 And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

    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.

  • Gen 26:25-26
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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.

  • 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.

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

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

  • 6 And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    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.

    31 Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

    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.

  • 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.

  • 19 And these are the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham begat Isaac:

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

  • 62 And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.

  • Num 21:17-18
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    17 Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

    18 The well, which the princes digged, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre, [and] with their staves. And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah;

  • Gen 26:8-9
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    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.

    9 And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, of a surety she is thy wife: and how saidst thou, She is my sister? And Isaac said unto him, Because I said, Lest I die because of her.

  • 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac.

  • 9 And Isaac and Ishmael his sons buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre;

  • 18 [ even he] to whom it was said, In Isaac shall thy seed be called:

  • 16 [ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

  • 34 And Abraham begat Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • 12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

  • 35 and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.