Genesis 26:22
And he removes from there, and digs another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calls its name “Enlargements,” and says, “For—now has YHWH given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.”
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21and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calls its name “Hatred.”
23And he goes up from there [to] Beer-Sheba,
Cross References
Genesis 28:3and God Almighty bless you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and you have become an assembly of peoples;
Exodus 1:7and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very, very mighty, and the land is filled with them.
Psalms 18:19And He brings me forth to a large place, || He draws me out, because He delighted in me.
Psalms 119:32I run the way of Your commands, || For You enlarge my 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 →