Genesis 26:15

Geneva Bible (1560)

In so much that the Philistims stopped and filled vp with earth all the welles, which his fathers seruantes digged in his father Abrahams time.

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  • Gen 21:30 : 30 And he answered, Because thou shalt receiue of mine hand these seuen lambes, that it may be a witnes vnto me, that I haue digged this well.
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.

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  • Gen 26:16-22
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    16 Then Abimelech sayde vnto Izhak, Get thee from vs, for thou art mightier then wee a great deale.

    17 Therefore Izhak departed thence and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

    18 And Izhak returning, digged the welles of water, which they had digged in the dayes of Abraham his father: for the Philistims had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and hee gaue them the same names, which his father gaue them.

    19 Izhaks seruantes then digged in the valley, and found there a well of liuing water.

    20 But the herdmen of Gerar did striue with Izhaks herdmen, saying, The water is ours: therefore called he the name of the wel Esek, because they were at strife with him.

    21 Afterwarde they digged another well, and stroue for that also, and he called the name of it Sitnah.

    22 Then he remoued thence, and digged an other well, for the which they stroue not: therefore called hee the name of it Rehoboth, and sayde, Because the Lorde hath nowe made vs roome, we shall increase vpon the earth.

  • Gen 26:12-14
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    12 Afterwarde Izhak sowed in that lande, and founde in the same yeere an hundreth folde by estimation: and so the Lord blessed him.

    13 And the man waxed mightie, and stil increased, till he was exceeding great,

    14 For he had flockes of sheepe, and heards of cattell, and a mightie housholde: therefore the Philistims had enuy at him.

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    32 And that same day Izhaks seruantes came and tolde him of a well, which they had digged, and said vnto him, We haue found water.

    33 So hee called it Shibah: therefore the name of the citie is called Beer-sheba vnto this day.

  • 25 And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.

  • 1 And there was a famine in the lande besides the first famine that was in the dayes of Abraham. Wherefore Izhak went to Abimelech King of the Philistims vnto Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    25 Then he builte an altar there, and called vpon the Name of the Lorde, and there spred his tent: where also Izhaks seruauntes digged a well.

    26 Then came Abimelech to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friendes, and Phichol the captaine of his armie.

    27 To whom Izhak sayd, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate mee and haue put mee away from you?

  • 30 And he answered, Because thou shalt receiue of mine hand these seuen lambes, that it may be a witnes vnto me, that I haue digged this well.

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2 And as he looked about, behold there was a well in the field, and lo, three flocks of sheepe lay thereby (for at that well were the flockes watered) & there was a great stone vpon the welles mouth.

    3 And thither were all the flockes gathered, & they rolled the stone from the welles mouth, and watered the sheepe, and put the stone againe vpon the welles mouth in his place.

  • 32 Thus made they a couenant at Beer-sheba: afterward Abimelech and Phichol his chiefe captaine rose vp, and turned againe vnto the land of the Philistims.

  • 6 So Izhak dwelt in Gerar.

  • 5 And Abraham gaue all his goods to Izhak,

  • 34 And Abraham was a stranger in the Philistims land a long season.

  • 11 And after the death of Abraham God blessed Izhak his sonne, and Izhak dwelt by Beer-lahai-roi.

  • 15 And Abimelech saide, Beholde, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

  • 18 For the Lorde had shut vp euery wombe of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abrahams wife.

  • 8 So after hee had bene there long time, Abimelech King of the Philistims looked out at a windowe, and loe, he sawe Izhak sporting with Rebekah his wife.

  • 4 So many of the people assembled themselues, and stopt all the fountaines, and the riuer that ranne through the middes of the countrey, saying, Why should the Kings of Asshur come, and finde much water?

  • 22 And at that same time Abimelech and Phichol his chief captaine spake vnto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest.

  • 8 But they sayde, We may not vntill all the flocks be brought together, and till men rolle the stone from the welles mouth, that we may water the sheepe.