Genesis 26:18

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

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  • Gen 21:31 : 31 therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.
  • Num 32:38 : 38 and Nebo, and Baal-Meon (changed in name), and Shibmah, and they call by `these' names the names of the cities which they have built.
  • Ps 16:4 : 4 Multiplied are their griefs, `Who' have hastened backward; I pour not out their libations of blood, Nor do I take up their names on my lips.
  • Hos 2:17 : 17 And I have turned aside the names of the lords from her mouth, And they are not remembered any more by their name.
  • Zech 13:2 : 2 And it hath come to pass, in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, I cut off the names of the idols from the land, And they are not remembered any more, And also the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness I cause to pass away from the land.

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  • Gen 26:15-17
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    15and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

    16And Abimelech saith unto Isaac, `Go from us; for thou hast become much mightier than we;'

    17and Isaac goeth from thence, and encampeth in the valley of Gerar, and dwelleth there;

  • Gen 26:19-22
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    19And Isaac's servants dig in the valley, and find there a well of living water,

    20and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water `is' ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;

    21and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name `Hatred.'

    22And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, `For -- now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'

  • Gen 26:31-33
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    31and rise early in the morning, and swear one to another, and Isaac sendeth them away, and they go from him in peace.

    32And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, `We have found water;'

    33and he calleth it Shebah, `oath,' therefore the name of the city `is' Beer-Sheba, `well of the oath,' unto this day.

  • Gen 26:25-26
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    25and he buildeth there an altar, and preacheth in the name of Jehovah, and stretcheth out there his tent, and there Isaac's servants dig a well.

    26And Abimelech hath gone unto him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phichol head of his host;

  • 1And there is a famine in the land, besides the first famine which was in the days of Abraham, and Isaac goeth unto Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

  • 11And it cometh to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blesseth Isaac his son; and Isaac dwelleth by the Well of the Living One, my Beholder.

  • 25And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

  • 6And Isaac dwelleth in Gerar;

  • Gen 21:30-32
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    30And he saith, `For -- the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

    31therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.

    32And they make a covenant in Beer-Sheba, and Abimelech riseth -- Phichol also, head of his host -- and they turn back unto the land of the Philistines;

  • Gen 29:2-3
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    2and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and the great stone `is' on the mouth of the well.

    3(When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.)

  • 19And these `are' births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;

  • 12And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

  • 62And Isaac hath come in from the entrance of the Well of the Living One, my Beholder; and he is dwelling in the land of the south,

  • Num 21:17-18
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    17Then singeth Israel this song, concerning the well -- they have answered to it:

    18`A well -- digged it have princes, Prepared it have nobles of the people, With the lawgiver, with their staves.' And from the wilderness `they journeyed' to Mattanah,

  • Gen 26:8-9
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    8And it cometh to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looketh through the window, and seeth, and lo, Isaac is playing with Rebekah his wife.

    9And Abimelech calleth for Isaac, and saith, `Lo, she `is' surely thy wife; and how hast thou said, She `is' my sister?' and Isaac saith unto him, `Because I said, Lest I die for her.'

  • 3and Abraham calleth the name of his son who is born to him, whom Sarah hath born to him -- Isaac;

  • 9And Isaac and Ishmael his sons bury him at the cave of Machpelah, at the field of Ephron, son of Zoar the Hittite, which `is' before Mamre --

  • 18of whom it was said -- `In Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

  • 16Which He hath made with Abraham, And His oath -- to Isaac,

  • 34And Abraham begetteth Isaac. Sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

  • 12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

  • 35and they are a bitterness of spirit to Isaac and to Rebekah.