BE'ER SHEVA: 
THE WELL OF SEVEN
Written By: Yarden

Genesis 21:25-31
Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized. But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”
So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.  Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”
He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well. ”
So that place was called Beersheva, because the two men swore an oath there.


When Abimelek was confronted by Abraham about the matter of the well, he was quick to address that it was unknown who dug the well. The worker who labored away on the well-spring did not leave a name inscribed on a sign nearby. And there wasn't a known sponsor who paid for the immense time it took to allow its completion, which his servants were very happy to acquire.
So instead of merely claiming ownership, Abraham set-apart seven lambs in front of that king as a seal of its architect. 

Just as the Sabbath is the seven to the week of labor, the seven sheep placed by Abraham also represent the essence of that number.
In hebrew the word seven or 'Shevah' is correctly spelled 'Shin Bet Ayin' with the letter 'Bet' missing the dagesh it is pronounced with a 'v' sound instead of a 'b' sound.
And  with the letter 'Ayin' meaning eye, one can learn that without seeing the fulfillment, it has not been completley 'sevened' by those in the contract, so Abraham made sure to visually complete the task.
After time had slowly passed and Abraham died, Isaac then dealt with Abimelek and just like Pharoah and the constant renewal of kingships on earth, that king forgot his promises.


Genesis 26:15-19
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.
Then Abimelek said to Isaac, “Move away from us; you have become too powerful for us. ”
So Isaac moved away from there and encamped in the Valley of Gerar, where he settled. Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the time of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham died, and he gave them the same names his father had given them.


Isaac continued on and excavated many well-springs in the wilderness, in the end getting peace at Rehoboth where he finally found room to spread his tents and flocks. Then from there he went up the Be'er Shevah and recieved a vision, and by that time Abimelek had finally remembered who the Father of Isaac was, and persued him.


Genesis 26:26
Meanwhile, Abimelek had come to him from Gerar-

In a very predictable manner, the people in the wilderness had filled and stopped up not just a few, but all the wells that Abraham had opened. Reversing years of progress and pleasurely increasing years of hardship. So with sweeping just enough grains of wisdom into his mind, Abimelek quickly made peace with Isaac and left from there.
Then as the servants of Isaac were still excavating in Be'er Shevah after that feast, they loacated the origional well of Abraham, called The Well of Seven.

Genesis 26:32-33
That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. They said, “We’ve found water!” He called it Shevah, and to this day the name of the town has been Beersheva.

Confirming the well-springs by opening them under the previous title that his father had given them returned full power back to the ancient works of Abraham and his endeavors. The never-ending flow of springwater was just like the legacy of Abraham, the father of all nations. But yet another secret of the well of seven would not be revealed until later when Jacob would journey to the house of Laban.

Genesis 29:1-10
Then Jacob continued on his journey and came to the land of the eastern peoples. Here he saw a well in the open country, with three flocks of sheep lying near it because the flocks were watered from that well. The stone over the mouth of the well was large. When all the flocks were gathered there, the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s mouth and water the sheep. Then they would return the stone to its place over the mouth of the well.
Jacob asked the shepherds, “My brothers, where are you from?”
“We’re from Harran, ” they replied.
He said to them, “Do you know Laban, Nahor’s grandson?”
“Yes, we know him,” they answered.
Then Jacob asked them, “Is he well?”
“Yes, he is,” they said, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with the sheep. ”
“Look,” he said, “the sun is still high; it is not time for the flocks to be gathered. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
“We can’t,” they replied, “until all the flocks are gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
While he was still talking with them, Rachel came with her father’s sheep, for she was a shepherd. When Jacob saw Rachel daughter of his uncle Laban, and Laban’s sheep, he went over and rolled the stone away from the mouth of the well and watered his uncle’s sheep.

Seven times, Be'er is mentioned here for Jacob in this section. A resounding powerful contract from Abraham at Be'er Shevah. A great riddle of perception that Abraham the Hebrew was able to discern at the well of seven. Something we can all only hope to have the merit to wonder at, to guess at its complexities and spiritual defenitions.

And when Jacob left from that well, he served Laban seven years for each of his daughters. Not by coincidence or accident, but with purpose he served seven years in the fields of Laban. Israel was blessed by the wellspring that was prepared by Abraham. For it was Abraham who established the flow, then Isaac cleared what was covered and hidden, followed by Israel rolling away the seal from that sweet water. Reclining and even looking into the well-spring, and reckoning who arranged it all the way down the line, even for Moses.

Exodus 2:15-17
- - - Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.