Wells Reopened

12Isaac sowed in that land, and in that year he found a hundredfold, and Yahweh blessed him.

13And the man became great, and he continued to grow greater until he became very great.

14He had flocks, herds, and a large household, and the Philistines envied him.

15All the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines stopped up and filled them with earth.

16Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, because you have become much stronger than we are.”

17So Isaac went away from there and camped in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.

18Then Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death, and he called them by the names that his father had given them.

19Then Isaac’s servants dug in the wadi and found there a well of living water.

20Then the shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s shepherds, saying, “The water is ours.” So he named the well Esek, because they had quarreled with him.

21Then they dug another well, and they also quarreled over it, so he called its name Sitnah.

22He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name Rehoboth, and said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”