Genesis 26:15

World English Bible (2000)

Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

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  • Gen 21:30 : 30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."
  • Gen 21:25 : 25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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  • Gen 26:16-22
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    88%

    16 Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."

    17 Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

    18 Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

    19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

    20 The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

    21 They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

    22 He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

  • Gen 26:12-14
    3 verses
    78%

    12 Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.

    13 The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.

    14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

  • Gen 26:32-33
    2 verses
    77%

    32 It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

    33 He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

  • Gen 21:25
    77%

    25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

  • Gen 26:1
    76%

    1 There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

  • Gen 26:25-27
    3 verses
    76%

    25 He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

    26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

    27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"

  • Gen 21:30
    73%

    30 He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

  • Gen 29:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 He looked, and behold, a well in the field, and, behold, three flocks of sheep lying there by it. For out of that well they watered the flocks. The stone on the well's mouth was large.

    3 There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

  • Gen 21:32
    72%

    32 So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 26:6
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    6 Isaac lived in Gerar.

  • Gen 25:5
    70%

    5 Abraham gave all that he had to Isaac,

  • Gen 21:34
    70%

    34 Abraham lived as a foreigner in the land of the Philistines many days.

  • Gen 25:11
    70%

    11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

  • Gen 20:15
    69%

    15 Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

  • Gen 20:18
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    18 For Yahweh had closed up tight all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah, Abraham's wife.

  • Gen 26:8
    69%

    8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

  • 2 Chr 32:4
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    4 So many people gathered together, and they stopped all the springs, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?"

  • Gen 21:22
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    22 It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

  • Gen 29:8
    68%

    8 They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."