14. He had many flocks and herds and servants. Isaac had so much that the Philistines became jealous of him.
15. So they stopped up all of the wells the servants of his father Abraham had dug. They filled them with dirt.
16. Then Abimelech said to Isaac, "Move away from us. You have become too powerful for us."
17. So Isaac moved away from there. He camped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there.
18. Isaac opened up the wells again. They had been dug in the time of his father Abraham. The Philistines had stopped them up after Abraham died. Isaac gave the wells the same names his father had given them.
19. Isaac's servants dug for wells in the valley. There they discovered a well of fresh water.
20. But the people of Gerar who took care of their herds argued with the people who took care of Isaac's herds. "The water is ours!" the people of Gerar said. So Isaac named the well Esek. That's because they argued with him.
21. Then Isaac's servants dug another well. They argued about that one too. So he named it Sitnah.