Genesis 26:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

So the Philistines took dirt and filled up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.

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  • Gen 21:30 : 30 He replied,“You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

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  • Gen 26:16-22
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    88%

    16Then Abimelech said to Isaac,“Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”

    17So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.

    18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug back in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

    19When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

    20the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying,“The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.

    21His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.

    22Then he moved away from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over it, so Isaac named it Rehoboth, saying,“For now the LORD has made room for us, and we will prosper in the land.”

  • Gen 26:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.

    13The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.

    14He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

  • Gen 26:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug.“We’ve found water,” they reported.

    33So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

  • Gen 21:25
    77%

    25But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.

  • Gen 26:1
    76%

    1Isaac and Abimelech There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
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    76%

    25Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

    26Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.

    27Isaac asked them,“Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”

  • Gen 21:30
    73%

    30He replied,“You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”

  • Gen 29:2-3
    2 verses
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    2He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

    3When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone off the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place over the well’s mouth.

  • Gen 21:32
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    32So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 26:6
    71%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 25:5
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    5Everything he owned Abraham left to his son Isaac.

  • Gen 21:34
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    34So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

  • Gen 25:11
    70%

    11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.

  • Gen 20:15
    69%

    15Then Abimelech said,“Look, my land is before you; live wherever you please.”

  • Gen 20:18
    69%

    18For the LORD had caused infertility to strike every woman in the household of Abimelech because he took Sarah, Abraham’s wife.

  • Gen 26:8
    69%

    8After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
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    4A large number of people gathered together and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the district. They reasoned,“Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?”

  • Gen 21:22
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    22At that time Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, said to Abraham,“God is with you in all that you do.

  • Gen 29:8
    68%

    8“We can’t,” they said,“until all the flocks are gathered and the stone is rolled off the mouth of the well. Then we water the sheep.”