Genesis 26:21 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 26:21

19 Also Isaac’s servants dug in the valley, and found a well of running water there.

20 But the herdsmen of Gerar ^aquarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well¹ Esek, because they quarreled with him.

21 Then they dug another well, and they quarreled over that one also. So he called its name¹ Sitnah.

22 And he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he called its name¹ Rehoboth, because he said, “For now the Lord has made room for us, and we shall ^abe fruitful in the land.”

23 Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

Commentaries:

No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Genesis 26:21.

Genesis 26:17-22

Water plays a very significant role in the lives of people in the book of Genesis.

I want you to notice something as we go by here. I think you all understand that Isaac was a type of Christ. If we would go through all the chapters that have to do with Abraham and Isaac, I think you would be very surprised to see how much wells of water had to do with their well-being. God led them to wells of water.

What did the world do? The world tried to steal them. The world tried to plug them up. God is showing a form of persecution. The elect, He is showing, have access to the wells God supplies while the world tries to stop up—persecute—so we cannot drink from them.

Excerpted from Four Views of Christ (Part 1)

Genesis 26:20-22

Isaac was a man of peace. He was a man that gave space to anger. He was a man that did not go to war with people even though they were treating him deviously and unfairly. He simply moved somewhere else.

Excerpted from Abraham (Part Eleven)

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