Genesis 26:20
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.
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- 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 26:21-222 verses85%
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 26:14-196 verses83%
14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
15 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.
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.
- Gen 26:31-333 verses79%
31 They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
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.
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25 Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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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.
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6 Isaac lived in Gerar.
- Gen 21:30-312 verses71%
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."
31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
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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 29:2-32 verses70%
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.
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12 Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
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13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
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7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
- Num 21:16-183 verses69%
16 From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."
17 Then sang Israel this song: "Spring up, well; sing to it:
18 the 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;
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7 He called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
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27 Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
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35 They grieved Isaac's and Rebekah's spirits.
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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."
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14 Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"
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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?"
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19 The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet."
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62 Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.
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11 It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
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7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their livestock.
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24 All the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.