“For all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.”
So all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the time of his father Abraham, the Philistines stopped up, filling them with earth. The filling of the wells is the act of aggressive territorial competition: the Philistines cannot bear the visible evidence of Isaac's superior position. Wells are survival infrastructure in the Negev — stopping them is an attempt to drive Isaac away. The application: those who cannot match your success sometimes attempt to destroy the infrastructure that produces it. The wells of Abraham are being stopped because Isaac's inheritance has become intolerable to those who observe it.
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