Genesis 26:18

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Isaac 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 21:31 : 31 That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
  • Num 32:38 : 38 Nebo, Baal Meon(with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 their troubles multiply; they desire other gods. I will not pour out drink offerings of blood to their gods, nor will I make vows in the name of their gods.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 And also on that day,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“I will remove the names of the idols from the land and they will never again be remembered. Moreover, I will remove the prophets and the unclean spirit from the land.

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  • Gen 26:15-17
    3 verses
    88%

    15So 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.

    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.

  • Gen 26:19-22
    4 verses
    87%

    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 26:31-33
    3 verses
    81%

    31Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.

    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 26:25-26
    2 verses
    80%

    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.

  • Gen 26:1
    74%

    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 25:11
    73%

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

  • Gen 21:25
    72%

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

  • Gen 26:6
    72%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 21:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

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

    31That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

    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 29:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    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 25:19
    70%

    19Jacob and Esau This is the account of Isaac, the son of Abraham.Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Gen 26:12
    70%

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

  • Gen 24:62
    70%

    62Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.

  • Num 21:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17Then Israel sang this song:“Spring up, O well, sing to it!

    18The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs.”And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

  • Gen 26:8-9
    2 verses
    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.

    9So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said,“She is really your wife! Why did you say,‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied,“Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”

  • Gen 21:3
    69%

    3Abraham named his son– whom Sarah bore to him– Isaac.

  • Gen 25:9
    67%

    9His sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah near Mamre, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar, the Hittite.

  • Heb 11:18
    67%

    18God had told him,“Through Isaac descendants will carry on your name,”

  • 1 Chr 16:16
    67%

    16the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    67%

    34Isaac’s Descendants Abraham was the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac:Esau and Israel.

  • John 4:12
    67%

    12Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

  • Gen 26:35
    67%

    35They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.