Genesis 26:12-25

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹² Now Isaac sowed in that land and ^[a]reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And ^(A)the Lord blessed him, ¹³ and the man ^(B)became rich, and continued to grow ^[b]richer until he became very ^[c]wealthy; ¹⁴ for ^(C)he had possessions of flocks ^[d]and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him. ¹⁵ Now ^(D)all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up ^[e]by filling them with earth. ¹⁶ Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are ^[f](E)too powerful for us.” ¹⁷ And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and ^[g]settled there.

Quarrel over the Wells

¹⁸ Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which ^[h]had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he ^[i]gave them the same names which his father had ^[j]given them. ¹⁹ But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of ^[k]flowing water, ²⁰ the herdsmen of Gerar ^(F)quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well ^[l]Esek, because they contended with him. ²¹ Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it ^[m]Sitnah. ²² He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it ^[n]Rehoboth, for he said, “^[o](G)At last the Lord has made ^[p]room for us, and we will be ^(H)fruitful in the land.”

²³ Then he went up from there to ^(I)Beersheba. ²⁴ The Lord ^(J)appeared to him the same night and said,

²⁵ So he built an ^(N)altar there and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.