Genesis 26:12–22

¹²Isaac planted crops in that land. That same year he gathered 100 times more than he planted. That was because the Lord blessed him.

¹³Isaac became rich. His wealth continued to grow until he became very rich. ¹⁴He had many flocks and herds and servants.

Isaac had so much that the Philistines became jealous of him. ¹⁵So they stopped up all of the wells the servants of his father Abraham had dug. They filled them with dirt.

¹⁶Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Move away from us. You have become too powerful for us.”

¹⁷So Isaac moved away from there. He camped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. ¹⁸Isaac opened up the wells again. They had been dug in the time of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave the wells the same names his father had given them.

¹⁹Isaac’s servants dug for wells in the valley. There they discovered a well of fresh water. ²⁰But the people of Gerar who took care of their herds argued with the people who took care of Isaac’s herds. “The water is ours!” the people of Gerar said. So Isaac named the well Esek. That’s because they argued with him.

²¹Then Isaac’s servants dug another well. They argued about that one too. So he named it Sitnah.

²²He moved on from there and dug another well. But no one argued about that one. So he named it Rehoboth. He said, “Now the Lord has given us room. Now we will do well in the land.”