15 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham. 16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.” 17 So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
Genesis 26:15–17
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Genesis 26:5–7
5 because Abraham listened to My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” 6 So Isaac settled in Gerar. 7 But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since h…
Book of Jubilees 24:16–18
16 Now all the wells which the servants of Abraham had dug during the life of Abraham, the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham, and filled them with earth. (JUB) 17 And Abimelech said unto Isaac: 'Go from us, for thou art much mightier than we', and Is… (JUB)
Genesis 21:24–26
24 And Abraham replied, “I swear it.” 25 But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized, 26 Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
Genesis 26:22–24
22 He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.” 23 From there Isaac went up to Beersheba, 24 and that night the LORD appeared t…
Genesis 26:1–2
1 Now there was another famine in the land, subsequent to the one that had occurred in Abraham’s time. And Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar. 2 The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell yo…
Genesis 21:33–34
33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God. 34 And Abraham resided in the land of the Philistines for a long time.
Genesis 20:1–2
1 Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar, 2 Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
Genesis 26:26–28
26 Later, Abimelech came to Isaac from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army. 27 “Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.” 28 “We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We reco…
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