16. So Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much more powerful than us.”
17. So Isaac departed from there, camped in the Valley of Gerar and dwelled there.
18. Then Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham—the Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham’s death. He gave them the same names that his father had given them.
19. Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of living water there.
20. But the shepherds of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s shepherds saying, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Quarrel, because they quarreled with him.
21. Then he dug another well and they quarreled over it too, so he named it Accusation.
22. Then he moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. So he named it Wide Spaces and said, “Because now Adonai has created wide spaces for us and we will be fruitful in the land.”
23. He went up from there to Beer-sheba.
24. Adonai appeared to him that night and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you, and I will bless you and multiply your seed for the sake of Abraham my servant.”
25. So he built an altar there and called on the Name of Adonai. He pitched his tent there and Isaac’s servants hollowed out a well there.
26. Now Abimelech went to him from Gerar along with Achuzzat his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.