Genesis 26:15

King James Version 1611 (Original)

For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:30 : 30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 26:16-22
    7 verses
    88%

    16And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.

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

    18And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

    19And Isaac's servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

    20And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

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

    22And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

  • Gen 26:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

    13And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great:

    14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

  • Gen 26:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

    33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

  • Gen 21:25
    77%

    25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

  • Gen 26:1
    76%

    1And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.

    26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

    27And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?

  • Gen 21:30
    73%

    30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

  • Gen 29:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.

    3And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.

  • Gen 21:32
    72%

    32Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 26:6
    71%

    6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

  • Gen 25:5
    70%

    5And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

  • Gen 21:34
    70%

    34And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

  • Gen 25:11
    70%

    11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahairoi.

  • Gen 20:15
    69%

    15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.

  • Gen 20:18
    69%

    18For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 26:8
    69%

    8And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
    69%

    4So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

  • Gen 21:22
    68%

    22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

  • Gen 29:8
    68%

    8And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.