Genesis 26:15 meaning and explanation

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Genesis 26:15, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaac has just reaped a hundredfold and grown very wealthy in Gerar, and the Philistines envy him. Filling Abraham's wells with dirt was deliberate sabotage in a dry land, where water meant survival and a well was a family's inheritance.

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