Skip to content

A moment in scripture

Genesis 26:19

The surrounding passage

  1. Genesis 26:17

    And Isaac departed thence, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

  2. Genesis 26:18

    And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

  3. Genesis 26:20

    And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.

  4. Genesis 26:21

    And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

Read all of Genesis 26 →

Download verse card

Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.