Genesis 26:19

19 Moreover, Isaac's slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring^[a] water there.

Genesis 26:19 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 26:19

And Isaac's servants digged in the valley
In the valley of Gerar, as the Septuagint version expresses it: and found there a well of springing water;
or "living water" ^F12, which continually flows, as Aben Ezra rightly interprets it: hence this phrase is used of the perpetual and ever living graces of the Spirit of God, ( John 4:10 John 4:11 ) ( 7:38 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 (Myyx Mym) "aquarum viventium", Pagninus, Montanus, Drusius.

Genesis 26:19 In-Context

17 So Isaac left there, camped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

18 Isaac reopened the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham and that the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. He gave them the same names his father had given them.

19 Moreover, Isaac's slaves dug in the valley and found a well of spring water there.

20 But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Quarrel because they quarreled with him.

21 Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also, so he named it Hostility.

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit living