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%
21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called the name of it 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 26:14-196 verses83%
14He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
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.
18Isaac 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.
19Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Gen 26:31-333 verses79%
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.{Shibah means "oath" or "seven."} Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba{Beersheba means "well of the oath" or "well of the seven"} to this day.
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25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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25He 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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6Isaac lived in Gerar.
- Gen 21:30-312 verses71%
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,{Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."} because they both swore there.
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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 29:2-32 verses70%
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 great.
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.
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12Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his cattle?"
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13These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
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7There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived then in the land.
- Num 21:16-183 verses69%
16From 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.
17Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, well; sing you 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;
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7He called the name of the place Massah,{Massah means testing.} and Meribah,{Meribah means quarreling.} because the children of Israel quarreled, and because they tested Yahweh, saying, "Is Yahweh among us, or not?"
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27Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
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35They grieved Isaac and Rebekah's spirits.
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8They 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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14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.{Beer Lahai Roi means "well of the one who lives and sees me."} Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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2Therefore 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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4So there was gathered much people 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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19The children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price of it: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet.
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62Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi. For he lived in the land of the South.
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11It happened after the death of Abraham, that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.
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7For their substance was too great for them to dwell together, and the land of their travels couldn't bear them because of their cattle.
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24All the Egyptians dug round about the river for water to drink; for they couldn't drink of the water of the river.