And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The LORD blessed him, and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) And Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we.”
So Isaac departed from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar and settled there. And Isaac dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father, which the Philistines had stopped after the death of Abraham. And he gave them the names that his father had given them.
Comment: We have here a series of events which cause Ahimelech to still graciously, but decisively, act. He couldn’t accept Isaac, as a guest on his land and becoming greater and wealthier than he. There was a patch of ground a bit farther out which Abraham had used and on which Abraham had dug wells. For some unfathomable reason these had been filled in, and that in a land where water was liquid gold! Ahimelech sent Isaac there and obviously Abimelech reclaimed the fertile area which Isaac had made very profitable. Isaac went as commanded and began having the wells re-dug and recommissioned! He had the advantage of knowing where to dig – his shepherds and other workers had for years been in the family’s employ.
Prayer: Where possible help me to live at peace with all people.
As I read it! 