Genesis 26:22

Bishops' Bible (1568)

And 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.

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  • Exod 1:7 : 7 And the children of Israel were fruitfull, encreased, multiplied, & waxed exceedyng myghtie, and the lande was full of them.
  • Gen 17:6 : 6 I wyll make thee exceedyng fruitefull, and wyll make nations of thee, yea and kynges shall spryng out of thee.
  • Ps 4:1 : 1 To the chiefe musition on Neginoth, a psalme of Dauid. Heare me when I call O God of my righteousnesse: thou hast set me at libertie when I was in distresse.
  • Ps 18:19 : 19 He brought me also foorth into a place of libertie: he brought me foorth, because he had a fauour vnto me.
  • Ps 118:5 : 5 I called vpon the Lorde beyng in distresse: and the Lorde hath hearde me at large.
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 And God almyghtie blesse thee, and make thee to encrease, & multiplie thee, that thou mayest be a number of people:
  • Gen 41:52 : 52 The name of the seconde called he Ephraim, for God sayd he hath caused me to be fruitefull in the lande of my trouble.

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  • Gen 26:15-21
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    83%

    15 For the Philistines stopped and fylled vp with earth all the welles which his seruauntes had digged in his father Abrahams tyme.

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

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

    18 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.

    19 Isahacs seruauntes digged in the valley, and founde a well of springyng water.

    20 And 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.

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

  • 23 And he went vp thence to Beer-seba.

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    32 And the same daye Isahacs seruauntes came and tolde hym of a well which they had dygged, and sayde vnto hym, we haue founde water.

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

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

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    30 He 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.

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

    32 Thus 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.

  • 14 Wherfore ye well was called the well of hym that lyueth and seeth me: and it is betweene Cades and Bared.

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

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2 And 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.

    3 And 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.

  • 11 And 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.

  • Gen 26:12-13
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    12 Then Isahac sowed in that lande, and receaued in the same yere an hundred folde: and the Lorde blessed hym.

    13 And the man waxed myghtie, & went foorth, and grewe tyll he was exceeding great.

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

  • Gen 13:7-8
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    7 And there fell a stryfe betwene the heardmen of Abrams cattell, and the heardmen of Lottes cattell: Moreouer, the Chanaanites, and Pherisites dwelled at that tyme in the lande.

    8 Then sayde Abram vnto Lot: let there be no strife I pray thee betweene thee and me, and betweene my heardmen and thyne, for we be brethren.

  • Num 21:16-17
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    16 From thence they returned vnto Beer: The same is the well wherof the Lord spake vnto Moyses: Gather the people together, and I will geue them water.

    17 Then Israel sang this song: Spryng vp well, syng ye vnto it:

  • 3 And he went foorth on his iourney, from the south towarde Bethel, vnto the place where his tent had ben at the begynnyng, betwene Bethel and Hai:

  • 25 And said moreouer vnto him, we haue litter and prouender ynough, and also rowme to lodge in.

  • 15 And Abimelech sayde: beholde my lande lyeth before thee, dwell where it pleaseth thee best.

  • 14 Nowe let the damsel to whom I say, stoupe downe thy pitcher I pray thee, that I may drinke: If she say also, drinke, and I wyll geue thy Camelles drinke also: let the same be she that thou hast ordeyned for thy seruaunt Isahac, and thereby shall I knowe that thou hast shewed mercy on my maister.

  • 19 But God brake a great tooth that was in the iawe, & there came water therout, and when he had drunke, his spirite came agayne, & he was refreshed: wherfore the name thereof was called vnto this day, The well of the caller on: which came of the iawe.

  • 42 And so I came this day vnto the wel, and sayde: O Lorde the God of my maister Abraham, if it be so nowe that thou makest my iourney whiche I go prosperous,

  • 19 So turned Abraham againe vnto his young men: and they rose vp, and went together to Beer seba, and Abraham dwelt at Beer seba.

  • 8 And remouyng thence vnto a mountayne that was eastwarde from Bethel, he pitched his tent, hauyng Bethel on the west syde, & Hai on the east: and there he buyldyng an aulter vnto the Lorde, dyd call vpon the name of the Lorde.

  • 16 Therfore all the ryches whiche God hath taken from our father, that is ours and our chyldrens: nowe then whatsoeuer God hath sayde vnto thee, that do.

  • 29 And Rebecca had a brother called Laban: and he ranne out vnto the man, euen to the well.

  • 22 And the childre stroue together within her wombe: therfore she said, if it be so, why am I thus? wherefore she went to aske the Lorde.

  • 2 And the Lorde appeared vnto hym, and sayde: Go not downe into Egypt, but abyde in the lande whiche I shall shewe vnto thee.

  • 30 For that litle which thou haddest before I came, is nowe increased into a multitude, and the Lord hath blessed thee through my trauell: but nowe when shall I make prouision for myne owne house also?