digged: The wells in Arabia are generally dug in the rock: their mouths are about six feet in diameter, and they are from nineteen to twenty feet in depth. But Niebuhr informs us, that many wells are from 160 to 170 feet deep. Rehoboth: i.e. Room the Lord: Psalms 4:1, Psalms 18:19, Psalms 118:5 be fruitful: Genesis 17:6, Genesis 28:3, Genesis 41:52, Exodus 1:7 Reciprocal: Genesis 46:1 - Beersheba 2 Samuel 22:20 - brought read more
Beersheba: Genesis 21:31, Genesis 46:1, Judges 20:1 Reciprocal: Genesis 21:33 - called 2 Kings 23:8 - Beersheba Amos 7:9 - the high read more
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.He digged a well, and for that they strove not — Those that follow peace, sooner or later, shall find peace: those that study to be quiet seldom fail of being so. This well they called Rehoboth - Enlargements, room enough. read more
20-22. Esek… Sitnah… Rehoboth These appear to have been new wells digged, in addition to the old ones re-opened, and the names mean, respectively, Strife, Opposition, (from the same root as Satan,) and Broad Places, Room . The name of Rehoboth still lingers in the wady er-Ruhaibeh, some twenty-three miles south of Beer-sheba, where Robinson found extensive ruins. Later travellers claim to have found the well, but their reports are conflicting. read more
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John Trapp Complete Commentary - Genesis 26:23
Gen 26:23 And he went up from thence to Beersheba. Ver. 23. And he went up. ] To the place of God’s worship. Strabo writeth that the Metapontines, when they were enriched by a good year of grain, dedicated to Apollo a golden harvest. a a Dedicasse in Delphis χρυσουν θερος . read more