Exodus 2:17 Cross References - NSB

¹⁷ Then the shepherds came and drove them away. Moses stood up and helped them water their flock.

²⁵ Abraham complained to Abimelech because of the well of water that the servants of Abimelech had seized.

¹⁵ The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father. They filled them with dirt. ¹⁶ Abimelech said to Isaac: »Go away from us. You are too powerful for us.« ¹⁷ Isaac departed from there and camped in the valley of Gerar where he settled. ¹⁸ Then Isaac dug the water wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after the death of Abraham. He gave them the same names his father had given them. ¹⁹ Isaac’s servants dug in the valley (wadi) (torrent-valley) and found a well of running water. ²⁰ The herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with the herdsmen of Isaac. They said: »The water is ours!« So he named the well Esek, because they argued with him. ²¹ They dug another well. And they quarreled over that one too. So Isaac named it Sitnah (Accusation). ²² He moved on from there and dug another well. They did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth (Roomy). He said: »Now Jehovah has made room for us. We will prosper in this land.«

¹⁰ Jacob saw Rachel, daughter of his uncle Laban, with his uncle Laban’s sheep. He came forward and rolled the stone off the opening of the well and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

¹² Moses looked around to see if anyone was watching. Then he killed the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.