Genesis 26:18 - Exposition

And Isaac digged again —literally, returned and digged , i . e . re-dug (cf. 2. Kings Genesis 20:5 )— the wells of water, which they (the servants of Abraham) had digged in the days Of Abraham his father ;—from which it appears that Abraham had digged other wells besides that of Beersheba ( Genesis 21:31 )— for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham :—which was a violation of the league into which Abimelech had entered with the patriarch ( vide Genesis 21:23 )— and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them —and with which Isaac was sufficiently acquainted.