Genesis 26:18

And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

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In The King James Version

And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

In Context

17So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.

19Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:31So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

Psalms 16:4Their sorrows will be increased who go after another god: I will not take drink offerings from their hands, or take their names on my lips.

Zechariah 13:2And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:13-26

Isaac's Removal to Beersheba. ( b. c. 1804.) 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him: 13 And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: 14 For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. 15 For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. 16 And… Read the whole commentary →

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