Genesis 26:12–22

¹²And Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, ¹³and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. ¹⁴He had possessions of flocks and herds, and a great household, so that the Philistines envied him. ¹⁵(Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) ¹⁶And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us; for you are much mightier than we.”

¹⁷So Isaac departed from there, and encamped in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there. ¹⁸And Isaac dug again the wells of water which had been dug in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he gave them the names which his father had given them. ¹⁹But when Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found there a well of springing water, ²⁰the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek,^u because they contended with him. ²¹Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that also; so he called its name Sitnah.^{v 22}And he moved from there and dug another well, and over that they did not quarrel; so he called its name Rehoboth, saying, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”