Genesis 26:21
His servants dug another well, but they quarreled over it too, so Isaac named it Sitnah.
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- Ezra 4:6 : 6 Official Complaints Are Lodged Against the Jews At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus they filed an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
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- Gen 26:12-209 verses85%
12 When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the LORD blessed him.
13 The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.
14 He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.
15 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.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac,“Leave us and go elsewhere, for you have become much more powerful than we are.”
17 So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.
18 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.
19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,
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.
- Gen 26:22-232 verses83%
22 Then 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.”
23 From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.
- Gen 26:25-273 verses75%
25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
26 Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.
27 Isaac asked them,“Why have you come to me? You hate me and sent me away from you.”
- Gen 26:31-333 verses74%
31 Early in the morning the men made a treaty with each other. Isaac sent them off; they separated on good terms.
32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug.“We’ve found water,” they reported.
33 So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.
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25 But Abraham lodged a complaint against Abimelech concerning a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized.
- Gen 21:30-323 verses70%
30 He replied,“You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”
31 That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
32 So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.
- Num 21:16-183 verses69%
16 And 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.”
17 Then Israel sang this song:“Spring up, O well, sing to it!
18 The 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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6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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1 Isaac 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 verses67%
2 He 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.
3 When 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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7 So 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.)
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14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.(It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)
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62 Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
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35 They caused Isaac and Rebekah great anxiety.
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11 After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac. Isaac lived near Beer Lahai Roi.
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12 Surely 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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5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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7 He 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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47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.
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13 These are the waters of Meribah, because the Israelites contended with the LORD, and his holiness was maintained among them.
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19 She answered,“Please give me a special present. Since you have given me land in the Negev, now give me springs of water.” So he gave her both upper and lower springs.