🌱WEB · Genesis 26:15
What does Genesis 26:15 mean?
"Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth."
— Genesis 26:15 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
Now all the wells which his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.
Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug in the days of Abraham his father. For the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
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