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.

That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We’ve found water,” they reported.

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