Gen 26:15, 18, 2Ch 32:4 | TSK | STEP | his father's. had stopped.In those countries, a well of water was a great acquisition; and hence, this mode of injuring new settlers, or revenging themselves on their enemies, is still resorted to among the inhabitants.

Genesis 26:15

his father's.

had stopped.In those countries, a well of water was a great acquisition; and hence, this mode of injuring new settlers, or revenging themselves on their enemies, is still resorted to among the inhabitants.

Genesis 26:18

in the days.Houbigant contends, that instead of {bimey,} "in the days," we should read, {avdey,} "servants;" agreeably to the Samaritan, Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate: "And Isaac digged again the wells of water which the servants of Abraham his father had digged."

and he.

21:31; Nu 32:38; Ps 16:4; Ho 2:17; Zec 13:2

2 Chronicles 32:4

who stopped.This was prudently done; for, without water, how could an immense army subsist in ar arid country? No doubt the Assyrian army suffered much through this; as a Christian army did, through the same cause, 1,800 years afterwards.

the brook.

30; 30:14

ran through the midst of. Heb. overflowed. kings.The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic read king, in the singular number.

1; 2Ki 18:9,13; 19:17; Isa 10:8

find.

1Ki 3:9,16,17; 19:21