Genesis 26:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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

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  • Gen 26:16-22
    7 verses
    88%

    16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Go from us; for you are much mightier than we.

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

    18And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug 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 dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

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

    21And they dug another well, and quarreled over that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

    22And he moved from there, and dug another well; and for that they quarreled not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has 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 a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

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

    14For he had possessors of flocks, and possessors of herds, and a great number of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    77%

    32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to 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, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines to Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dug 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 to them, Why do you come to me, seeing you hate me, and have sent me away from you?

  • Gen 21:30
    73%

    30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that they may be a witness that I have dug this well.

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    72%

    2And he looked and saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying by it; for they watered the flocks from that well, and a large stone was on the well's mouth.

    3And there all the flocks were gathered, and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, then put the stone back on the well's mouth in its place.

  • Gen 21:32
    72%

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

  • Gen 26:6
    71%

    6And Isaac lived in Gerar:

  • Gen 25:5
    70%

    5And Abraham gave all that he had to 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 Lahai Roi.

  • Gen 20:15
    69%

    15And Abimelech said, Behold, my land is before you: live where it pleases you.

  • Gen 20:18
    69%

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

  • Gen 26:8
    69%

    8And it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
    69%

    4So many people gathered together and stopped all the fountains and the brook that ran through 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 army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

  • Gen 29:8
    68%

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