Genesis 26:20
But the herdmen of Gerar did striue with Izhaks herdmen, saying, The water is ours: therefore called he the name of the well Esek, because they were at strife with him.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
19Izhaks seruantes then digged in the valley, and found there a well of liuing water.
21Afterwarde they digged another well, and stroue for that also, and he called the name of it Sitnah.
Cross References
Genesis 21:25And Abraham rebuked Abimelech for a well of water, which Abimelechs seruants had violently taken away.
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 →