Genesis 26:18
And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
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- Gen 21:31 : 31 So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
- Num 32:38 : 38 And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.
- Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.
- Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.
- Zech 13:2 : 2 And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.
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- Gen 26:15-173 verses88%
15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.
16 And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go away from us, for you are stronger than we are.
17 So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.
- Gen 26:19-224 verses87%
19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.
20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.
21 Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.
22 Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.
- Gen 26:31-333 verses81%
31 And early in the morning they took an oath one to the other: then Isaac sent them away and they went on their way in peace.
32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.
33 And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.
- Gen 26:25-262 verses80%
25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.
26 And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.
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1 Then came a time of great need in the land, like that which had been before in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.
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11 Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son.
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25 But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.
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6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;
- Gen 21:30-323 verses71%
30 And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.
31 So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
32 So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.
- Gen 29:2-32 verses71%
2 And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.
3 And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.
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19 Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:
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12 Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
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62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.
- Num 21:17-182 verses70%
17 Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:
18 The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:
- Gen 26:8-92 verses69%
8 And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.
9 And he said to Isaac, It is clear that she is your wife: why then did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said, For fear that I might be put to death because of her.
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3 And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.
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9 And Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, put him to rest in the hollow rock of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, near Mamre;
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18 Of whom it had been said, From Isaac will your seed take their name:
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16 The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
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34 And Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.
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12 Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?
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35 And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.