Genesis 26:32
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New International Version (©2011)
That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, "We've found water!"

New Living Translation (©2007)
That very day Isaac's servants came and told him about a new well they had dug. "We've found water!" they exclaimed.

English Standard Version (©2001)
That same day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now it came about on the same day, that Isaac's servants came in and told him about the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
On that same day Isaac's slaves came to tell him about the well they had dug, saying to him, "We have found water!"

International Standard Version (©2012)
That very same day, Isaac's servants arrived and reported to him about a well that they had just completed digging. "We've found water!" they said.

NET Bible (©2006)
That day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug. "We've found water," they reported.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about a well they had dug. They said to him, "We've found water."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said unto him, We have found water.

American King James Version
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dig, and said to him, We have found water.

American Standard Version
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And behold the same day the servants of Isaac came, telling him of a well which they had digged, and saying: We have found water.

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well that they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.

English Revised Version
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

Webster's Bible Translation
And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said to him, We have found water.

World English Bible
It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass during that day that Isaac's servants come and declare to him concerning the circumstances of the well which they have digged, and say to him, 'We have found water;'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

26:26-33 When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him, Pr 16:7. Kings' hearts are in his hands, and when he pleases, he can turn them to favour his people. It is not wrong to stand upon our guard in dealing with those who have acted unfairly. But Isaac did not insist on the unkindnesses they had done him; he freely entered into friendship with them. Religion teaches us to be neighbourly, and, as much as in us lies, to live peaceable with all men. Providence smiled upon what Isaac did; God blessed his labours.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 32. - And it came to pass the same day (i.e. the day of the treaty), that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, - the operation of sinking this well had probably commenced on the day of Abimelech s arrival at Beersheba (vide ver. 25). Almost immediately on the king's departure the well-diggers returned to the patriarch's encampment to report the success of their operations - and said unto him, We have found water. The LXX., mistaking לו, to him, for לֹא, not, read, "We have not found water;" the incorrectness of which is sufficiently declared by what follows.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass the same day,.... That the above things were transacted:

that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged; they had dug it before Abimelech came to Isaac, but they had not had an opportunity of acquainting him with it until he was gone, and then they came to give him an account of it, what sort of a well it was, and how it answered their expectations and wishes; and which in those countries was a very great blessing, and served very much to recommend a place to dwell in:

and said unto him, we have found water; not only had dug a well, but they had found plenty of water, and that which was good; or otherwise it would not have been worth while to have troubled Isaac with the account of it.

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Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech
…31And they rose up betimes in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace. 32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dig, and said to him, We have found water. 33And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

Genesis 26:31 Early the next morning the men swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they went away peacefully.
Genesis 26:33 He called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheba.