Holy Scripture
Genesis 26:16
A church father on this verse
“Consider the degree of evil of those inhabitants such as even to begrudge the good man water. Not even the king, despite his having so much wealth, could withstand the impulse of envy but said, "Depart from us, because you have become far too powerful for us." What terrible malice; why, in fact, are you driving the go…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
16And Abimelech said to Isaac, Depart from us, for thou art become much mightier than we.
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14And he had cattle of sheep, and cattle of oxen, and many tilled lands, and the Philistines envied him.
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.
— Genesis 26:16 —
17And Isaac departed thence, and rested in the Valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.