Genesis 26:18

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And Isahac returning, digged againe the welles of water which they digged in the dayes of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham, & named them after the same names by the which his father had named them.

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  • Gen 21:31 : 31 Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.
  • Num 32:38 : 38 Nebo, Baalmeon, and turned their names, and Sibama also: and gaue other names vnto the cities which they builded.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 As for them that runne after another God they shall haue great trouble: I wyll not offer their drynke offerynges of blood, neither wyll I make mention of their names within my lyppes.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I wyll take away those names of Baal from her mouth, yea she shall neuer remember their names any more.
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 And then saith the Lorde of hoastes, I wyll destroy the names of the idols out of the lande: so that they shal no more be put in remembraunce: As for the false prophetes also, and the vncleane spirites, I wyl take them out of the lande.

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  • Gen 26:15-17
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    15For the Philistines stopped and fylled vp with earth all the welles which his seruauntes had digged in his father Abrahams tyme.

    16And Abimelech sayde vnto Isahac: Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then we a great deale.

    17Therefore Isahac departed thence, and abode in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

  • Gen 26:19-22
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    19Isahacs seruauntes digged in the valley, and founde a well of springyng water.

    20And the heardmen of Gerar did striue with Isahacs heardmen, saying: the water is ours. Then called he the well contention, because they stroue with hym.

    21And they digged another well, and stroue for that also: and he called the name of it enmitie.

    22And then he departed thence, & digged another well, for the which they stroue not. Therfore called he it roomth, saying: the Lorde hath made vs nowe roome that we may encrease vpon the earth.

  • Gen 26:31-33
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    31And they rose vp betymes in the mornyng, and sware one to another: And Isahac sent them away, and they departed from hym in peace.

    32And the same daye Isahacs seruauntes came and tolde hym of a well which they had dygged, and sayde vnto hym, we haue founde water.

    33And he called it Sebah: and the name of the citie is called Beer-seba vnto this day.

  • Gen 26:25-26
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    25And he builded an aulter there, and called vpon the name of the Lorde, and pitched his tent: and there Isahacs seruauntes dygged a well.

    26Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar, and Ahuzath his friende, and Phicol the captaine of his armie.

  • 1And there fell a famine in the land, besides the first that was in the dayes of Abraham: And Isahac went vnto Abimelech, king of the Philistines, vnto Gerar.

  • 11And it came to passe after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his sonne Isahac, and Isahac dwelled by the well of liuing and seeing me.

  • 25And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a wel of water, which Abimeleches seruauntes had violently taken away.

  • 6And Isahac dwelled in Gerar.

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    30He aunswered: for these seuen ewe lambes shalt thou take of my hande, that they may be a wytnesse vnto me, that I haue digged this well.

    31Wherefore the place is called Beer seba, because that there they sware both of them.

    32Thus made they a leage together at Beer seba: and Abimelech and Phicol his chiefe captayne rose vp, and turned agayne into the lande of the Philistines.

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2And as he loked about, beholde, there was a wel in the field, and loe, three flockes of sheepe lay there by, for at that well were the flockes watered: and there was a great stone vpon the well mouth.

    3And thyther were all the flockes brought, and they roulled the stone fro the welles mouth, & watred the sheepe, & put the stone agayne vpon the welles mouth vnto his place.

  • 19And these are the generations of Isahac, Abrahams sonne: Abraham begat Isahac.

  • 12Then Isahac sowed in that lande, and receaued in the same yere an hundred folde: and the Lorde blessed hym.

  • 62And Isahac was commyng from the waye of the well of the lyuyng and seeyng me: for he dwelt in the South countrey.

  • Num 21:17-18
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    17Then Israel sang this song: Spryng vp well, syng ye vnto it:

    18The princes digged this well, the captaynes of the people digged it with the lawe geuer, and with their staues. And from the wildernesse they went to Mathana:

  • Gen 26:8-9
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    8And after he had ben there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines loked out at a windowe, & sawe Isahac sportyng with Rebecca his wyfe.

    9And Abimelech called Isahac, and said: beholde, she is of a suretie thy wife, and why saydest thou, she is my sister? To whom Isahac aunswered: because I thought that I might peraduenture haue dyed for her sake.

  • 3And Abraham called his sonnes name that was borne vnto him, whiche Sara bare hym, Isahac.

  • 9And his sonnes Isahac and Ismael buryed hym in the double caue in the fielde of Ephron sonne of Soar the Hethite, before Mamre.

  • 18To whom it was saide, that in Isaac shall thy seede be called.

  • 16euen of his couenaunt that he made with Abraham, and of his othe vnto Isaac.

  • 34And so Abraham begat Isahac. The sonnes of Isahac: Esau and Israel.

  • 12Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and he hym selfe dranke therof, and his chyldren, and his cattell?

  • 35Which were disobedient vnto Isahac and Rebecca.