Genesis 26:18

And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

17And Isaac departed thence, and rested in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

19And the servants of Isaac dug in the Valley of Gerar, and they found there a well of living water.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:31Therefore he named the name of that place, The Well of the Oath, for there they both swore.

Psalms 16:4As for the works of men, by the words of thy lips I have guarded myself from hard ways. 1

Zechariah 13:2And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will utterly destroy the names of the idols from off the land, and there shall be no longer any remembrance of them: and I will cut off the false prophets and the evil spirit 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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