Genesis 26:12–22

¹²Now Isaac sowed in that land and ¹reaped in the same year a hundredfold. And ^athe Lord blessed him,

¹³and the man ^abecame rich, and continued to grow ¹richer until he became very wealthy;

¹⁴for ^ahe had possessions of flocks ¹and herds and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵Now ^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.

¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are ^1atoo powerful for us.”

¹⁷And Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar, and ¹settled there.

Quarrel over the Wells

¹⁸Then 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.

¹⁹But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of ¹flowing water,

²⁰the 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.

²¹Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over it too, so he named it ¹Sitnah.

²²He 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.”