By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Then Abraham asked, “Since I have undertaken to speak to the Lord (although I am but dust and ashes),

The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

And I will make your descendants like the dust of the earth, so that if anyone is able to count the dust of the earth, then your descendants also can be counted.

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