Genesis 26:21

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Ezra 4:6 : 6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

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  • Gen 26:12-20
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    12And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold: and Jehovah blessed him.

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

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

    15Now 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.

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

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

    18And 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.

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

    20And 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.

  • Gen 26:22-23
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    22And 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.

    23And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    25And 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.

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

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

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

    32And 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.

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

  • Gen 21:25
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    25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    30And 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.

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

    32So 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.

  • Num 21:16-18
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    16And from thence [they journeyed] to Beer: that is the well whereof Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

    17Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

    18The 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 26:6
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    6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

  • Gen 26:1
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    1And 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 29:2-3
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    2And 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.

    3And 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.

  • Gen 13:7
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    7And there was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelt then in the land.

  • Gen 16:14
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    14Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

  • Gen 24:62
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    62And Isaac came from the way of Beer-lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the land of the South.

  • Gen 26:35
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    35and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

  • Gen 25:11
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    11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac his son: and Isaac dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

  • John 4:12
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    12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

  • John 4:5
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    5So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

  • Exod 17:7
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    7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the striving of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us, or not?

  • Gen 31:47
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    47And Laban called it Jegar-saha-dutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

  • Num 20:13
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    13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Jehovah, and he was sanctified in them.

  • Josh 15:19
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    19And she said, Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.