Tour · c. 1850 BC

Isaac and the wells

Beer-lahai-roi Gen 24:62–67
Coming from Beer-lahai-roi, Isaac meets Rebekah in the field at evening and takes her into his mother Sarah's tent.
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Machpelah Gen 25:8–10 · ≈ 120 km in a straight line
Isaac and Ishmael bury their father Abraham in the cave of Machpelah, beside Sarah.
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Gerar Gen 26:1–14 · ≈ 50 km in a straight line
In a famine Isaac goes to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar, calls Rebekah his sister, and reaps a hundredfold.
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Valley of Gerar Gen 26:15–19
Sent away, he camps in the Valley of Gerar and digs again the wells of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped.
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Esek Gen 26:20 · ≈ 5 km in a straight line
The herdmen of Gerar strive with his over the water, and he calls the well Esek, contention.
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Sitnah Gen 26:21 · ≈ 44 km in a straight line
They strive over the next well too, and he calls it Sitnah, hatred.
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Rehoboth Gen 26:22
Over a third well no one strives, and he names it Rehoboth: "For now the LORD hath made room for us".
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Beersheba Gen 26:23–33 · ≈ 35 km in a straight line
At Beersheba the Lord appears to him by night: "fear not, for I am with thee"; he builds an altar, makes peace with Abimelech, and his servants find water.
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