And Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi; for he dwelt in the south country.
Isaac came from the way of the well Lahai-roi. It was situated in the Negeb (south country), that extensive pastoral Lahai-roi (Moilahhi) is still a regular station in the wilderness, at the point where several roads both from the east and west of the peninsula fall into the main route leading from Suez to Bir-es-Saba (Robinson's 'Biblical Researches ') (see the note at Genesis 16:14). Isaac had been to the well at Lahai-roi; but whether he had been there simply to inspect his flocks and herds scattered on the distant pasture lands around, or whether he had resorted for devotional purposes to a place hallowed by the special manifestation of the divine presence, he had now returned home.