38 Bible Verses About Well
Consider the well, not merely as a physical reservoir, but as a sacred point of encounter and sustenance within scripture. To meditate upon these biblical instances concerning wells is to stoop and draw forth water from the divine source itself. Let these verses guide your reflection, revealing how God provides refreshment, fosters relationship, and offers life, beckoning the thirsty soul to drink deeply from the wellspring of His truth for spiritual nourishment and understanding.
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Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
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Wherefore the well was called Beer–lahai–roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.
And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water; and she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink.
And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.
And he said, For these seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.
Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:
And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.
And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.
And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
And she hasted, and emptied her pitcher into the trough, and ran again unto the well to draw water, and drew for all his camels.
And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.
And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai–roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, that God blessed his son Isaac; and Isaac dwelt by the well Lahai–roi.
Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac’s servants digged a well.
And they digged another well, and strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
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.
And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.
And thither were all the flocks gathered: and they rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again upon the well’s mouth in his place.
And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mother’s brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother’s brother, that Jacob went near, and rolled the stone from the well’s mouth, and watered the flock of Laban his mother’s brother.
And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.
And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.
And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjath–jearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is in Sechu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they be at Naioth in Ramah.
And thou hast shewed this day how that thou hast dealt well with me: forasmuch as when the Lord had delivered me into thine hand, thou killedst me not.
And when Joab was come out from David, he sent messengers after Abner, which brought him again from the well of Sirah: but David knew it not.
Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Beth–lehem, which is by the gate!
And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth–lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord.
The image of the well, so recurrent in these sacred texts, transcends its earthly utility. It stands as a potent symbol of the essential source, the profound depth from which true sustenance must be drawn. Whether a place of vital provision, a scene of significant encounter, or a metaphor for the soul's deep yearning, the well reminds us that life's most precious elements are not found superficially. To approach the well is to acknowledge need; to draw from it requires effort and humility. Let these verses guide your reflection not only on physical thirst but on the seeking of that hidden, life-giving water that truly refreshes the spirit, the fount from which flows all authentic vitality and grace.