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Selected Verse: Genesis 26:15 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ge 26:15 |
Strong Concordance |
For all the wells [0875] which his father's [01] servants [05650] had digged [02658] in the days [03117] of Abraham [085] his father [01], the Philistines [06430] had stopped [05640] them, and filled [04390] them with earth [06083]. |
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King James |
For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| all the wells which his father's servants had digged . . . the Philistines had stopped, &c.--The same base stratagem for annoying those against whom they have taken an umbrage is practiced still by choking the wells with sand or stones, or defiling them with putrid carcases. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| For all the wells - the Philistines had stopped them - In such countries a good well was a great acquisition; and hence in predatory wars it was usual for either party to fill the wells with earth or sand, in order to distress the enemy. The filling up the wells in this case was a most unprincipled transaction, as they had pledged themselves to Abraham, by a solemn oath, not to injure each other in this or any other respect. See Gen 21:25-31. |
25 And Abraham [085] reproved [03198] Abimelech [040] because [0182] of a well [0875] of water [04325], which Abimelech's [040] servants [05650] had violently taken away [01497].
26 And Abimelech [040] said [0559], I wot [03045] not who hath done [06213] this thing [01697]: neither [03808] didst thou tell [05046] me, neither [03808] yet heard [08085] I of it, but [01115] to day [03117].
27 And Abraham [085] took [03947] sheep [06629] and oxen [01241], and gave [05414] them unto Abimelech [040]; and both of them [08147] made [03772] a covenant [01285].
28 And Abraham [085] set [05324] seven [07651] ewe lambs [03535] of the flock [06629] by themselves.
29 And Abimelech [040] said [0559] unto Abraham [085], What [02008] mean these seven [07651] ewe lambs [03535] which thou hast set [05324] by themselves?
30 And he said [0559], For these seven [07651] ewe lambs [03535] shalt thou take [03947] of my hand [03027], that [05668] they may be a witness [05713] unto me, that I have digged [02658] this well [0875].
31 Wherefore he called [07121] that place [04725] Beersheba [0884]; because there they sware [07650] both of them [08147].