WELLS

Passages on this topic · 24

• Genesis 21:25

  Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

• Genesis 21:26

  Abimelech said, “I don’t know who has done this thing. You didn’t tell me, and I didn’t hear of it until today.”

• Genesis 21:27

  Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

• Genesis 21:28

  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

• Genesis 21:29

  Abimelech said to Abraham, “What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?”

• Genesis 21:30

  He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

• Genesis 24:16

  The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin. No man had known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.

• Genesis 26:15

  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 26:16

  Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go from us, for you are much mightier than we.”

• Genesis 26:17

  Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

• Genesis 26:18

  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.

• Genesis 26:19

  Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

• Genesis 26:20

  The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

• Genesis 26:21

  They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

• Genesis 26:22

  He left that place, and dug another well. They didn’t argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, “For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

• Genesis 26:32

  The same day, Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, “We have found water.”

• Genesis 26:33

  He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

• 2 Chronicles 26:10

  He built towers in the wilderness, and dug out many cisterns, for he had much livestock; in the lowland also, and in the plain. He had farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields, for he loved farming.

• Ecclesiastes 2:6

  I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.

• Isaiah 12:3

  Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

• Jeremiah 15:18

  Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

• John 4:6

  Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

• John 4:14

  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

• 2 Peter 2:17

  These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.