Bible Verses About Wells

This is why the well has been called Be'er-Lachai-Ro'i [well of the one who lives and sees]; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water and gave the boy water to drink.

Now Avraham had complained to Avimelekh about a well which Avimelekh's servants had seized.

He answered, "You are to accept these seven female lambs from me as witness that I dug this well."

This is why that place was called Be'er-Sheva [well of seven, well of an oath] - because they both swore an oath there.

Toward evening, when the women go out to draw water, he had the camels kneel down outside the city by the well.

Here I am, standing by the spring, as the daughters of the townsfolk come out to draw water.

I will say to one of the girls, 'Please lower your jug, so that I can drink.' If she answers, 'Yes, drink; and I will water your camels as well,' then let her be the one you intend for your servant Yitz'chak. This is how I will know that you have shown grace to my master."

The girl was very beautiful, a virgin, never having had sexual relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jug and came up.

When she was through letting him drink, she said, "I will also draw water for your camels until they have drunk their fill."

She quickly emptied her jug into the trough, then ran again to the well to draw water, and kept on drawing water for all his camels.

"So today, I came to the spring and said, 'ADONAI, God of my master Avraham, if you are causing my trip to succeed in its purpose,

Now the P'lishtim had stopped up and filled with dirt all the wells his father's servants had dug during the lifetime of Avraham his father.

Yitz'chak reopened the wells which had been dug during the lifetime of Avraham his father, the ones the P'lishtim had stopped up after Avraham died, and called them by the names his father had used for them.

But the herdsmen of G'rar quarreled with Yitz'chak's herdsmen, claiming, "That water is ours!" So he called the well 'Esek [quarrel], because they quarreled with him.

They dug another well and quarreled over that one too. So he called it Sitnah [enmity].

He went away from there and dug another well, and over that one they didn't quarrel. So he called it Rechovot [wide open spaces] and said, "Because now ADONAI has made room for us, and we will be productive in the land."

As he looked, he saw a well in a field; and there were three flocks of sheep lying there next to it; because they watered the sheep from that well. The stone on the well's mouth was large,

and only when all the flocks had gathered there would they roll the stone away from the opening of the well and water the sheep. Then they would put the stone back in its place on the well's opening.

Ya'akov said to them, "My brothers, where are you from?" They answered, "We're from Haran."

"Yosef is a fruitful plant, a fruitful plant by a spring, with branches climbing over the wall.

the seven daughters of the priest of Midyan came to draw water. They had filled the troughs to water their father's sheep,

when the shepherds came and tried to drive them away. But Moshe got up and defended them; then he watered their sheep.

They came to Eilim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and camped there by the water.

Please let us pass through your land. We will not go through fields or vineyards, and we won't drink any water from the wells. We will go along the King's Highway, not turning aside either to the right or to the left until we have left your territory."