Then they dug another well, but they quarreled over that one also; so he named it Sitnah. Sitnah means opposition. The second well generates the same response: opposition, quarrel, another name marking the conflict. The pattern of dig-dispute-move is Isaac's response to persistent opposition: he does not fight for the wells but moves. The application: not every contested resource is worth fighting for. Isaac's strategy — name the conflict, move on, dig again — is the strategy of a person who knows that the covenant God will provide the space to settle eventually.

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