Genesis 26:12–33
12 Now Isaac sowed in that land and 1reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And athe Lord blessed him,
13 and the man abecame rich, and continued to grow 1richer until he became very 1wealthy;
14 for ahe had possessions of flocks 1and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.
15 Now aall the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up 1by filling them with earth.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are 1atoo powerful for us.”
17 And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and 1settled there.
18 Then Isaac dug again the wells of water which 1had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, for the Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham; and he 2gave them the same names which his father had 3given them.
19 But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of 1flowing water,
20 the herdsmen of Gerar aquarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac, saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well 1Esek, because they contended with him.
21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it 1Sitnah.
22 He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it 1Rehoboth, for he said, “2aAt last the Lord has made 3room for us, and we will be bfruitful in the land.”
23 Then he went up from there to aBeersheba.
24 The Lord aappeared to him the same night and said,
“bI am the God of your father Abraham;
cDo not fear, for I am with you.
I dwill bless you, and multiply your 1descendants,
For the sake of My servant Abraham.”
25 So he built an aaltar there and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.
26 Then aAbimelech came to him from Gerar 1with his adviser Ahuzzath and Phicol the commander of his army.
27 Isaac said to them, “aWhy have you come to me, since you hate me and have sent me away from you?”
28 They said, “We see plainly athat the Lord has been with you; so we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, even between 1you and us, and let us make a covenant with you,
29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you 1and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the ablessed of the Lord.’ ”
30 Then ahe made them a feast, and they ate and drank.
31 In the morning they arose early and 1aexchanged oaths; then Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace.
32 Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac’s servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”
33 So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is aBeersheba to this day.