Genesis 26:17
15 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.
16 Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
18 Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.
19 Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So Isaac left that place and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
- KJV
- And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- WEB
- Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.
- ASV
- And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- DARBY
- And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his camp in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
- BLB
- And Isaac departed from there and camped in the Valley of Gerar, and he dwelt there.
- ÅB
- Så dro Isak derfra og slo leir i Gerar-dalen og ble boende der.
- OTB
- Så dro Isak bort derfra og slo leir i Gerar-dalen, hvor han bosatte seg.
- B1930
- Så drog Isak derfra og slo leir i Gerar-dalen og blev boende der.