Genesis 26:20
The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, and said, “This water is ours.” So Isaac called that well “Esek,” because they had quarreled with him.
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19When Isaac's servants dug in the valley, they found there a well of flowing water.
21Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that, too, so he gave it the name of “Sitnah.”
Cross References
Genesis 21:25Abraham also complained to Abimelech concerning a well of water that Abimelech's servants had seized from him.
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 →