Genesis 26:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.”

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 1:7 : 7 The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.
  • Gen 17:6 : 6 I will make you extremely fruitful. I will make nations of you, and kings will descend from you.
  • Ps 4:1 : 1 For the music director, to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of David. When I call out, answer me, O God who vindicates me! Though I am hemmed in, you will lead me into a wide, open place. Have mercy on me and respond to my prayer!
  • Ps 18:19 : 19 He brought me out into a wide open place; he delivered me because he was pleased with me.
  • Ps 118:5 : 5 In my distress I cried out to the LORD. The LORD answered me and put me in a wide open place.
  • Gen 28:3 : 3 May the Sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.
  • Gen 41:52 : 52 He named the second child Ephraim, saying,“Certainly God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.”

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  • Gen 26:15-21
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    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.

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

  • 23 From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.

  • Gen 26:32-33
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    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.

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

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    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.

  • 14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.(It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)

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

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    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.

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

  • Gen 26:12-13
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    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.

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

  • Gen 13:7-8
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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.)

    8 Abram said to Lot,“Let there be no quarreling between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are close relatives.

  • Num 21:16-17
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    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!

  • 3 And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

  • 25 We have plenty of straw and feed,” she added,“and room for you to spend the night.”

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

  • 14 I will say to a young woman,‘Please lower your jar so I may drink.’ May the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac reply,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ In this way I will know that you have been faithful to my master.”

  • 19 So God split open the basin at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring En Hakkore. It remains in Lehi to this very day.

  • 42 When I came to the spring today, I prayed,‘O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if you have decided to make my journey successful, may events unfold as follows:

  • 19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.

  • 8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.

  • 16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”

  • 29 (Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban.) Laban rushed out to meet the man at the spring.

  • 22 But the children struggled inside her, and she said,“Why is this happening to me?” So she asked the LORD,

  • 2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said,“Do not go down to Egypt; settle down in the land that I will point out to you.

  • 30 Indeed, you had little before I arrived, but now your possessions have increased many times over. The LORD has blessed you wherever I worked. But now, how long must it be before I do something for my own family too?”