Genesis 26:16-22

New American Standard Bible

¹⁶ Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are ^[a](A)too powerful for us.” ¹⁷ So Isaac departed from there and camped in the Valley of Gerar, and ^[b]settled there.

Argument over the Wells

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