Genesis 26:32

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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  • Gen 26:25 : 25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
  • Prov 2:4-5 : 4 if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure, 5 then you will understand how to fear the LORD, and you will discover knowledge about God.
  • Prov 10:4 : 4 The one who is lazy becomes poor, but the one who works diligently becomes wealthy.
  • Prov 13:4 : 4 The appetite of the sluggard craves but gets nothing, but the desire of the diligent will be abundantly satisfied.
  • Matt 7:7 : 7 Ask, Seek, Knock“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.

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  • Gen 26:17-23
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    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.”

    23From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Gen 24:13-15
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    13Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

    14I 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.”

    15Before he had finished praying, there came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder. She was the daughter of Bethuel son of Milcah(Milcah was the wife of Abraham’s brother Nahor).

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

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

  • Gen 29:2-3
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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 24:42-43
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    42When 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:

    43Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

  • 66The servant told Isaac everything that had happened.

  • Num 21:16-17
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    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!

  • Gen 24:45-46
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    45“Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’

    46She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

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

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

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    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.

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

  • 10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

  • 17Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”

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

  • 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.

  • 6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • 20But Isaac asked his son,“How in the world did you find it so quickly, my son?”“Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.

  • 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.”

  • 11He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

  • 30When he saw the bracelets on his sister’s wrists and the nose ring and heard his sister Rebekah say,“This is what the man said to me,” he went out to meet the man. There he was, standing by the camels near the spring.

  • 19When she had done so, she said,“I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

  • 19They said,“An Egyptian man rescued us from the shepherds, and he actually drew water for us and watered the flock!”