Genesis 26:21

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

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  • Ezra 4:6 : 6 And in the time of Ahasuerus, when he first became king, they put on record a statement against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

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  • Gen 26:12-20
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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.

    13 And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;

    14 For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.

    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.

    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.

    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.

  • Gen 26:22-23
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    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.

    23 And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    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.

    27 And Isaac said to them, Why have you come to me, seeing that in your hate for me you sent me away from you?

  • Gen 26:31-33
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    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.

  • 25 But Abraham made a protest to Abimelech because of a water-hole which Abimelech's servants had taken by force.

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    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.

  • Num 21:16-18
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    16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

    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:

  • 6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;

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  • Gen 29:2-3
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    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.

  • 7 And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

  • 14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

  • 62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

  • 35 And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.

  • 11 Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son.

  • 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?

  • 5 So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

  • 7 And he gave that place the name Massah and Meribah, because the children of Israel were angry, and because they put the Lord to the test, saying, Is the Lord with us or not?

  • 47 And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed.

  • 13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

  • 19 And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So he gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.