Genesis 26:18

World English Bible (2000)

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.

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  • Gen 21:31 : 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
  • Num 32:38 : 38 and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied who give gifts to another god. Their drink offerings of blood I will not offer, nor take their names on my lips.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.

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  • Gen 26:15-17
    3 verses
    88%

    15Now 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.

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

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

  • Gen 26:19-22
    4 verses
    87%

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

    20The 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.

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

    22He 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 26:31-33
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    81%

    31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

    32It 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."

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

  • Gen 26:25-26
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    80%

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

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

  • Gen 26:1
    74%

    1There 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 25:11
    73%

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

  • Gen 21:25
    72%

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

  • Gen 26:6
    72%

    6Isaac lived in Gerar.

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    71%

    30He 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."

    31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

    32So 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 29:2-3
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    2He 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.

    3There 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 25:19
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    19This is the history of the generations of Isaac, Abraham's son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.

  • Gen 26:12
    70%

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

  • Gen 24:62
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    62Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

  • Num 21:17-18
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    70%

    17Then sang Israel this song: "Spring up, well; sing to it:

    18the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles." From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah;

  • Gen 26:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8It 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.

    9Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"

  • Gen 21:3
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    3Abraham called his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.

  • Gen 25:9
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    9Isaac and Ishmael, his sons, buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron, the son of Zohar the Hittite, which is before Mamre,

  • Heb 11:18
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    18even he to whom it was said, "In Isaac will your seed be called;"

  • 1 Chr 16:16
    67%

    16[the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.

  • 1 Chr 1:34
    67%

    34Abraham became the father of Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau, and Israel.

  • John 4:12
    67%

    12Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"

  • Gen 26:35
    67%

    35They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.