Holy Scripture
Genesis 26:15
A church father on this verse
“This Isaac, therefore, our Savior, when he has come into that valley of Gerar, first of all wishes to dig those wells that the servants of his father had dug; he wishes to renew the wells of the law, of course, and the prophets, which Philistines had filled with earth.Who are those who fill the wells with earth? Those…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
15And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.
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13And the man was exalted, and advancing he increased, till he became very great.
14And he had cattle of sheep, and cattle of oxen, and many tilled lands, and the Philistines envied him.
— Genesis 26:15 —
16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.
17And Isaac departed thence, and rested in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.