Genesis 26:20
the 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.
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- 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 26:21-222 verses85%
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 26:14-196 verses83%
14He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
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.
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,
- Gen 26:31-333 verses79%
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.
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25But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
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25Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
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6So Isaac settled in Gerar.
- Gen 21:30-312 verses71%
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.
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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 29:2-32 verses70%
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.
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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.”
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13These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the LORD, and his holiness was maintained among them.
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7So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen.(Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)
- Num 21:16-183 verses69%
16And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the LORD spoke to Moses,“Gather the people and I will give them water.”
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;
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7He called the name of the place Massah and Meribah, because of the contending of the Israelites and because of their testing the LORD, saying,“Is the LORD among us or not?”
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27Isaac asked them,“Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”
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35They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.
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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.”
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14That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.(It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)
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2So the people contended with Moses, and they said,“Give us water to drink!” Moses said to them,“Why do you contend with me? Why do you test the LORD?”
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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?”
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19Then the Israelites said to him,“We will go along the highway, and if we or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.”
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62Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
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11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
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7because they had too many possessions to be able to stay together and the land where they had settled was not able to support them because of their livestock.
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24All the Egyptians dug around the Nile for water to drink, because they could not drink the water of the Nile.