בְּאֵר

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi. It is located between Kadesh and Bered.

Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.

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

He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

As evening approached, he made the camels kneel down near the well outside the town at the time when the women went out to draw water.

And she quickly emptied her jar into the trough and ran back to the well to draw water, until she had drawn water for all his camels.

So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died. And he gave these wells the same names his father had given them.

Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.

Then they dug another well and quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah.

He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD, and he pitched his tent there. His servants also dug a well there.

On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.

He looked and saw a well in the field, and near it lay three flocks of sheep, because the sheep were watered from this well. And a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

When all the flocks had been gathered there, the shepherds would roll away the stone from the mouth of the well and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.

But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”

As soon as Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his mother’s brother Laban, with Laban’s sheep, he went up and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

When Pharaoh heard about this matter, he sought to kill Moses. But Moses fled from Pharaoh and settled in the land of Midian, where he sat down beside a well.

Please let us pass through your land. We will not go through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we have passed through your territory.”

From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!

The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,

“Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”

But a young man did see them and told Absalom. So the two left quickly and came to the house of a man in Bahurim. He had a well in his courtyard, and they climbed down into it.

Then the man’s wife took a covering, spread it over the mouth of the well, and scattered grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

After the men had gone, Ahimaaz and Jonathan climbed up out of the well and went to inform King David, saying, “Get up and cross over the river at once, for Ahithophel has given this advice against you.”

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Do not let the floods engulf me or the depths swallow me up; let not the Pit close its mouth over me.

Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.

For a prostitute is a deep pit, and an adulteress is a narrow well.

You are a garden spring, a well of fresh water flowing down from Lebanon.