Genesis 26:22

Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

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In The King James Version

And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

In Context

21Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

23And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:3And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.

Exodus 1:7And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.

Psalms 18:19\18:18\They came on me in the day of my trouble; but the Lord was my support.

Psalms 119:32I will go quickly in the way of your teaching, because you have given me a free heart.

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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