Genesis 26:18
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| Overview - Genesis 26 | |
| 1 | Isaac, because of famine, sojourns in Gerar, and the Lord instructs and blesses him. |
| 7 | He is reproved by Abimelech for denying his wife. |
| 12 | He grows rich, and the Philistines envy his prosperity. |
| 18 | He digs Esek, Sitnah, and Rehoboth. |
| 23 | God appears to him at Beer-sheba, and blesses him; and Abimelech makes a covenant with him. |
| 34 | Esau's wives. |
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Genesis 26:18 (King James Version)
And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
- in the days
- Houbigant contends, that instead of {bimey,} "in the days," we should read, {avdey,} "servants;" agreeably to the Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: "And Isaac digged again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham his father had digged."
- and he
- 21:31 Numbers 32:38 ; Psalms 16:4 ; Hosea 2:17 ; Zechariah 13:2