Genesis 26:19

19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a spring-fed well.

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 moved away. He set up his tents in the Gerar Valley and lived there.

18 He dug out the wells that had been dug during his father Abraham's lifetime. The Philistines had filled them in after Abraham's death. He gave them the same names that his father had given them.

19 Isaac's servants dug in the valley and found a spring-fed well.

20 The herders from Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herders, claiming, "This water is ours!" So Isaac named the well Esek [Argument], because they had argued with him.

21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one too. So Isaac named it Sitnah [Accusation].