Genesis 26:15

15 omnes puteos quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham illo tempore obstruxerunt implentes humo

Genesis 26:15 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 26:15

For all the wells which his father's servants had digged, in
the days of Abraham his father
For the watering of his flocks and herds, see ( Genesis 21:25 ) : the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth;
that they might be of no use; and this they did through envy to him, and is mentioned as a proof of it.

Genesis 26:15 In-Context

13 et locupletatus est homo et ibat proficiens atque succrescens donec magnus vehementer effectus est

14 habuit quoque possessionem ovium et armentorum et familiae plurimum ob haec invidentes ei Palestini

15 omnes puteos quos foderant servi patris illius Abraham illo tempore obstruxerunt implentes humo

16 in tantum ut ipse Abimelech diceret ad Isaac recede a nobis quoniam potentior nostri factus es valde

17 et ille discedens veniret ad torrentem Gerarae habitaretque ibi