Wells
A 19th-century editor grouped these passages under ‘Wells’. It’s a historical finding aid — one editor’s arrangement of the text, not Scripture’s own.
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
Showing 1–24 of 61 verses grouped under this topic.
Nave's Topical Bible
Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.
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Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. 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.” Abraham took…
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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…
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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.”
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He called it “Shibah”. Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba” to this day.
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John 4:6 NT
Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
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I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown.
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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.
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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.
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Isaiah 12:3 OT
Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.
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John 4:14 NT
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.”
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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?
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2 Peter 2:17 NT
These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.
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Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi. Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
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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.”
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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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He made the camels kneel down outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.
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John 4:6 NT
Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
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John 4:8 NT
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
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But a boy saw them, and told Absalom. Then they both went away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
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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.
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Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.
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Psalms 84:6 OT
Passing through the valley of Weeping, they make it a place of springs. Yes, the autumn rain covers it with blessings.
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“Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine by a spring. His branches run over the wall.
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Exodus 15:27 OT
They came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water, and seventy palm trees. They encamped there by the waters.