Genesis 26:15

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The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during the days of Abraham his father, filling them with dirt.

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  • Gen 21:30 : 30 He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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  • Gen 26:16-22
    7 verses
    88%

    16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Leave us, for you have become much mightier than we are."

    17So Isaac departed from there, pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.

    18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; he gave them the same names his father had given them.

    19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there.

    20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

    21Isaac’s servants then dug another well, but they also quarreled over it. So he named it Sitnah.

    22He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth, and he said, "Now the LORD has given us room, and we will flourish in the land."

  • Gen 26:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that same year he reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

    13The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy.

    14He had many flocks, herds, and servants, so the Philistines envied him.

  • Gen 26:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32That same day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, "We have found water!"

    33He called it Shibah. Therefore, the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

  • Gen 21:25
    77%

    25Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

  • Gen 26:1
    76%

    1Now there was a famine in the land, apart from the earlier famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. So Isaac went to Abimelech, the king of the Philistines, in Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

    26Meanwhile, Abimelech came to him from Gerar with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.

    27Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

  • Gen 21:30
    73%

    30He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

  • Gen 29:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2He saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying beside it because that well was where the flocks were watered. A large stone was over the mouth of the well.

    3All the flocks would gather there, and the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s opening to water the sheep, and then they would put the stone back over the well’s mouth in its place.

  • Gen 21:32
    72%

    32After making the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 26:6
    71%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 25:5
    70%

    5Abraham gave everything he owned to Isaac.

  • Gen 21:34
    70%

    34And Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for a long time.

  • Gen 25:11
    70%

    11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi.

  • Gen 20:15
    69%

    15And Abimelech said, 'My land is before you; settle wherever you please.'

  • Gen 20:18
    69%

    18For the LORD had completely closed every womb in Abimelech's household because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 26:8
    69%

    8After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out a window and saw Isaac caressing Rebekah, his wife.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
    69%

    4A large number of people gathered together, and they stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?"

  • Gen 21:22
    68%

    22At that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham, 'God is with you in everything you do.'

  • Gen 29:8
    68%

    8But they said, 'We cannot until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone is rolled away from the well’s mouth. Then we will water the sheep.'