Genesis 26:16-18

International Standard Version

¹⁶ Then Abimelech ordered Isaac, “Move away from us! You’ve become more powerful than we are.” ¹⁷ So Isaac moved from there and encamped in the Gerar Valley, where he settled.

Disputes over Water Rights

¹⁸ Isaac re-excavated some wells that his father had first dug during his lifetime, because the Philistines had filled them with sand^[a] after Abraham’s death. Isaac^[b] renamed those wells with the same names that his father had called them.