Genesis 21:25 KJV — MannaFest

Genesis 21:25

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

KJV

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ASV

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away.

WEB

But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized,

YLT

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

DBT

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water that Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.

Author: Moses — by traditional attribution; the book is the first of the Pentateuch
Date: Composed c. 15th–13th century BC; draws on older patriarchal sources (the toledoth framework is internal)

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Genesis 26:20
And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaac’s herdmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they strove with him.
Genesis 26:15–22
For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
Exodus 2:17
And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
Genesis 13:7
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
Genesis 29:8
And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and till they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

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Note, If our brother trespass against us, we must, with the meekness of wisdom, tell him his fault, that the matter may be fairly accommodated and an end made of it, Matt. xviii. (2.) He acquiesced in Abimelech's justification of himself in this matter: I wot not who has done this thing,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well--Wells were of great importance to a pastoral chief and on the successful operation of sinking a new one, the owner was solemnly informed in person.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Cast out the bond-woman - This was a type of the rejection of the unbelieving Jews, who, though they were the seed of Abraham, yet, because they submitted not to the gospel-covenant, were unchurched and disfranchised. And that, which above any thing provoked God to cast them off, was, their mocking and persecuting the gospel-church, God's Isaac, in his infancy.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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