Genesis 26:20

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But 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.

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  • Gen 21:25 : 25 Then Abraham rebuked Abimelech about the well of water that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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  • Gen 26:21-22
    2 verses
    85%

    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 26:14-19
    6 verses
    83%

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

    15The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during the days of Abraham his father, filling them with dirt.

    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.

  • Gen 26:31-33
    3 verses
    79%

    31They rose early in the morning and took an oath to one another. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace.

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

  • Gen 26:25
    72%

    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.

  • Gen 26:6
    71%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 21:30-31
    2 verses
    71%

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

    31That is why the place was called Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

  • Gen 26:1
    70%

    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 29:2-3
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    70%

    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.

  • John 4:12
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    12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?"

  • Num 20:13
    69%

    13These were the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the LORD and where he showed himself holy among them.

  • Gen 13:7
    69%

    7There was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also dwelling in the land at that time.

  • Num 21:16-18
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    69%

    16From there they went to Beer. This is the well where the LORD said to Moses, 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

    17Then Israel sang this song: 'Spring up, O well—sing to it!'

    18The well that the leaders dug, that the nobles of the people excavated with their scepters and staffs.' From the wilderness they went to Mattanah.

  • Exod 17:7
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    7And he named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled and because they tested the LORD, saying, "Is the LORD among us or not?"

  • Gen 26:27
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    27Isaac asked them, "Why have you come to me, since you were hostile to me and sent me away?"

  • Gen 26:35
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    35They were a source of grief to Isaac and Rebekah.

  • Gen 29:8
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    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.'

  • Gen 16:14
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    14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is located between Kadesh and Bered.

  • Exod 17:2
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    2So the people quarreled with Moses, saying, "Give us water to drink." Moses replied to them, "Why are you quarreling with me? Why are you testing the LORD?"

  • 2 Chr 32:4
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    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?"

  • Num 20:19
    66%

    19The Israelites replied, "We will travel along the highway, and if we or our livestock drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only ask to pass through on foot."

  • Gen 24:62
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    62Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

  • Gen 25:11
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    11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi.

  • Gen 36:7
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    7Their possessions were too great for them to live together; the land where they stayed could not support them because of their livestock.

  • Exod 7:24
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    24All the Egyptians dug along the Nile to get drinking water because they could not drink the water from the river.