15 As for all the wells that the servants of his father had dug in the days of Abraham his father,+ these the Phi·lisʹtines stopped up and they would fill them with dry earth.+

4 Accordingly many people were collected together, and they went stopping up all the fountains and the torrent+ that floods through the middle of the land, saying: “Why should the kings of As·syrʹi·a come and actually find a great deal of water?”