Genesis 26:20
And the herdmen of rar did strive with Isaac's herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
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- Gen 21:25 : 25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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- Gen 26:21-222 verses85%
21And they digd another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22And he removed from thence, and digd 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.
- Gen 26:14-196 verses83%
14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
15For all the wells which his father's servants had digd in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
16And Abimelech said unto Isaac, Go from us; for thou art much mightier than we.
17And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of rar, and dwelt there.
18And Isaac digd again the wells of water, which they had digd 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.
19And Isaac's servants digd in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
- Gen 26:31-333 verses79%
31And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digd, and said unto him, We have found water.
33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
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25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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25And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digd a well.
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6And Isaac dwelt in rar:
- Gen 21:30-312 verses71%
30And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digd this well.
31Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
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1And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto rar.
- Gen 29:2-32 verses70%
2And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
3And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well's mouth in his place.
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12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
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13This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
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7And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
- Num 21:16-183 verses69%
16And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
17Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
18The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
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7And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not?
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27And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you?
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35Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
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8And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered tother, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we water the sheep.
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14Wherefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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2Wherefore the people did chide with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why chide ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt the LORD?
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4So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
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19And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
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62And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
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11And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai-roi.
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7For their riches were more than that they might dwell tother; and the land wherein they were stranrs could not bear them because of their cattle.
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24And all the Egyptians digged round about the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.