Bible Verses About Wells

therefore hath one called the well, `The well of the Living One, my beholder;' lo, between Kadesh and Bered.

And God openeth her eyes, and she seeth a well of water, and she goeth and filleth the bottle with water, and causeth the youth to drink;

And Abraham reasoned with Abimelech concerning the matter of a well of water which Abimelech's servants have taken violently away,

And he saith, `For--the seven lambs thou dost accept from my hand, so that it becometh a witness for me that I have digged this well;'

therefore hath he called that place `Beer-Sheba,' for there have both of them sworn.

and he causeth the camels to kneel at the outside of the city, at the well of water, at even-time, at the time of the coming out of the women who draw water.

lo, I am standing by the fountain of water, and daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water;

and it hath been, the young person unto whom I say, Incline, I pray thee, thy pitcher, and I drink, and she hath said, Drink, and I water also thy camels) --her Thou hast decided for Thy servant, for Isaac; and by it I know that Thou hast done kindness with my lord.'

and the young person is of very good appearance, a virgin, and a man hath not known her; and she goeth down to the fountain, and filleth her pitcher, and cometh up.

And she finisheth giving him drink, and saith, `Also for thy camels I draw till they have finished drinking;'

and she hasteth, and emptieth her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and runneth again unto the well to draw, and draweth for all his camels.

`And I come to-day unto the fountain, and I say, Jehovah, God of my lord Abraham, if Thou art, I pray Thee, making prosperous my way in which I am going--

and all the wells which his father's servants digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines have stopped them, and fill them with dust.

and Isaac turneth back, and diggeth the wells of water which they digged in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines do stop after the death of Abraham, and he calleth to them names according to the names which his father called them.

and shepherds of Gerar strive with shepherds of Isaac, saying, `The water is ours;' and he calleth the name of the well `Strife,' because they have striven habitually with him;

and they dig another well, and they strive also for it, and he calleth its name `Hatred.'

And he removeth from thence, and diggeth another well, and they have not striven for it, and he calleth its name Enlargements, and saith, `For--now hath Jehovah given enlargement to us, and we have been fruitful in the land.'

and he looketh, and lo, a well in the field, and lo, there three droves of a flock crouching by it, for from that well they water the droves, and the great stone is on the mouth of the well.

(When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.)

And Jacob saith to them, `My brethren, from whence are ye?' and they say, `We are from Haran.'

Joseph is a fruitful son; A fruitful son by a fountain, Daughters step over the wall;

And to a priest of Midian are seven daughters, and they come and draw, and fill the troughs, to water the flock of their father,

and the shepherds come and drive them away, and Moses ariseth, and saveth them, and watereth their flock.

And they come to Elim, and there are twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees; and they encamp there by the waters.

Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land; we pass not over through a field, or through a vineyard, nor do we drink waters of a well; the way of the king we go, we turn not aside--right or left--till that we pass over thy border.'