Genesis 26:32 - Exposition

And it came to pass the same day ( i . e . the day of the treaty), that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged ,—the operation of sinking this well had probably commenced on the day of Abimelech's arrival at Beersheba ( vide Genesis 26:25 ). Almost immediately on the king's departure the well-diggers returned to the patriarch's encampment to report the success of their operations— and said unto him, We have found water. The LXX ; mistaking לוֹ , to him, for לֹא , not, read, "We have not found water;" the incorrectness of which is sufficiently declared by what follows.