Genesis 26:21

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

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

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  • Gen 26:12-20
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    12 Isaac sowed seed in that land, and in that same year he reaped a hundredfold, because the LORD blessed him.

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

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

    15 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.

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

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

    18 Isaac 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.

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

    20 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.

  • Gen 26:22-23
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    22 He 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."

    23 From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    25 So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

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

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

  • Gen 26:31-33
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    31 They 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.

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

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

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

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    30 He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

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

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

  • Num 21:16-18
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    16 From 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.'

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

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

  • 6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • 1 Now 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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    2 He 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.

    3 All 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.

  • 7 There 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.

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

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

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

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

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

  • 5 So he came to a city in Samaria called Sychar, near the land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

  • 7 And 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?"

  • 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

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

  • 19 She replied, 'Give me a blessing. Since you have given me land in the Negev, grant me also springs of water.' So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs.