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KJB-1611[fn]And Isaacs seruants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water. (And Isaacs servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.)
BshpsIsahacs seruauntes digged in the valley, and founde a well of springyng water. (Isahacs servants digged in the valley, and found a well of springyng water.)
GnvaIzhaks seruantes then digged in the valley, and found there a well of liuing water. (Izhaks servantes then digged in the valley, and found there a well of living water. )
CvdlIsaacs seruauntes also dygged in the valley, and there they founde a well of lyuinge water. (Isaacs servants also dygged in the valley, and there they found a well of lyuinge water.)
WycThei diggiden in the stronde, and thei founden wellynge watir. (They diggiden in the stronde, and they found wellynge water.)
LuthAuch gruben Isaaks Knechte im Grunde und fanden daselbst einen Brunnen lebendigen Wassers. (Also gruben Isaaks servant(s) in_the Grunde and found there a Brunnen lifedigen waters.)
ClVgFoderuntque in torrente, et repererunt aquam vivam. (Foderuntque in torrente, and repererunt waterm vivam. )
26:1-35 In this digression from Jacob’s story, Isaac’s prosperity (ch 26) shows that the blessing had passed to him (cp. 25:11) despite his failures of faith.
The phrase living water is an idiom that means the well was spring fed and was a source of continually flowing, fresh water to drink. Alternate translation: “and struck a spring of flowing water there.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
