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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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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And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
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And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him: 'We have found water.'
Cross-references (5)
Passages linked to Genesis 26:32 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Proverbs 10:4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.
- Genesis 26:25 He built an altar there, and called on Yahweh’s name, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac’s servants dug a well.
- Proverbs 2:4-5 if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures: then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.
- Proverbs 13:4 The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.
- Matthew 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 32. And it came to pass the same day.…
32. And it came to pass the same day. Hence it appears, (as I have said a little before,) that the waters were not found in a moment of time. If it be asked, whence a supply of water had been obtained for his cattle and his household during the intervening days, I doubt not, indeed, that he either bought it, or was compelled to go to a distance to see if any one would be found from whom he might obtain it by entreaty. With respect to the name, (Sheba,) they are mistaken, in my judgment, who deem it to be any other than that which Abraham had first given to the well. For since the Hebrew word is ambiguous, Abraham alluded to the covenant which he had struck with the king of Gerar; but now Isaac recalling this ancient memorial to mind, joins with it the covenant in which he had himself engaged.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 26:32 And it came to pass the same…
Gen 26:32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
Ver. 32. We have found water.] As crosses, so mercies, seldom come single, but by troops; as she said, when her son Gad was born, "A company cometh". {Gen 30:11}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Esau was forty years old,.... The same age…
And Esau was forty years old,.... The same age his father was of when he married, Gen 25:20,
when he took to wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite; Josephus (m) makes her to be the same with Aholibamah; but her father's name was Zibeon, and an Hivite, and must therefore be another person, not only the name being different, but the tribe, Gen 36:2,
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and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite; whom Aben Ezra takes to be the same with Adah, and so does Josephus; and in this they may be right, since the name of her father, and his nation or tribe, agree, Gen 36:2. The fathers of these two women are represented by Josephus as men of great power and authority among the Canaanites, as very probably they were. Esau had another wife of the same name with this last, but she was daughter of Ishmael, and sister of Nebajoth, Gen 36:3; for he had more wives than those; these were his two first, who very probably were not taken together, but one after another, though it may be but at a short distance from each other.
(m) Antiqu. l. 1. c. 18. sect. 4.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (32) We have found water.—As there are two wells…
(32) We have found water.—As there are two wells at Beer-sheba, it is uncertain whether this was Abraham’s well, re-opened by Isaac (see Gen_26:25), or a new one.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And it came to pass the same day (i.e.…
And it came to pass the same day (i.e. the day of the treaty), that Isaac"s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, the operation of sinking this well had probably commenced on the day of Abimelech s arrival at Beersheba (vide ver. 25). Almost immediately on the king"s departure the well-diggers returned to the patriarch"s encampment to report the success of their operationsand said unto him, We have found water. The LXX, mistaking wOl, to him, for alo, not, read, "We have not found water;" the incorrectness of which is sufficiently declared by what follows.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 He called the well Shibah
He called the well Shibah
"So he called the well Shibah." Translators may add a footnote that says "The name Shibah sounds like the word that means 'oath.'" (See: How to Translate Names)
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Beersheba
Translators may add a footnote saying "Beersheba can mean either "well of the oath" or "well of seven." (See note on Genesis 21:32)
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cistern
Beersheba
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