Genesis 26:18

New American Bible - revised edition

Isaac reopened the wells which his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham and which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham’s death; he gave them names like those that his father had given them.

Cross References

Genesis 21:25

Abraham, however, reproached Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized by force.

Genesis 21:30

Abraham answered, “The seven ewe lambs you shall accept from me that you may be my witness that I dug this well.”

Genesis 21:31

This is why the place is called Beer-sheba; the two of them took an oath there.

Genesis 26:17

Isaac left there and camped in the Wadi Gerar where he stayed.

Genesis 26:19

But when Isaac’s servants dug in the wadi and reached spring water in their well,

2 Chronicles 26:10

He built towers in the wilderness and dug numerous cisterns, for he had many cattle. He had plowmen in the Shephelah and the plains, farmers and vinedressers in the highlands and the garden land. He was a lover of the soil.

Psalm 16:4

They multiply their sorrows who court other gods. Blood libations to them I will not pour out, nor will I take their names upon my lips.

Hosea 2:17

Then I will give her the vineyards she had, and the valley of Achor as a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as on the day when she came up from the land of Egypt.

Zechariah 13:2

On that day—oracle of the Lord of hosts—I will destroy the names of the idols from the land, so that they will be mentioned no more; I will also remove the prophets and the spirit of uncleanness from the land.

Numbers 32:38

Nebo, Baal-meon (names to be changed!), and Sibmah. These towns, which they rebuilt, they called by their old names. Other Conquests.