“And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the Lord hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.”
He moved on from there and dug another well, and no one quarreled over it. He named it Rehoboth, saying: now the LORD has given us room and we will flourish in the land. Rehoboth means spacious places or room. The third well is the uncontested one — the place where the covenant person is finally allowed to settle without opposition. The naming is a declaration of faith: now the LORD has given us room. The application: the persistence that digs three wells before finding the uncontested one is the persistence that eventually receives the room. The covenant person does not give up; they dig again.
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