A number of Biblical events happened beside wells. In a land of desert, dust and dryness, the presence of a well is the difference between life and death. No wonder the Bible is full of ‘well’ stories. Physically and often spiritually life is barren and waterles
Having killed a man Moses was in exile. Pharaoh tried to kill him so he fled to Midian. There he sat down beside a well which was the obvious place to be. The seven daughters of Reuel came to feed their flocks but were driven away by shepherds. Moses intervened and the rest is history. Invited to stay at Reuel’s place he married one of his daughters, Zipporah and had a son. Exodus 2:11.
Hagar was running away from Sarah, the wife of Abraham and was sitting by a spring in the desert when God found her and promised her that her son would be a head of a large nation. Genesis 16. Isaac met Rebekah when he was sitting by a well and she came to feed her flocks. Genesis 24. Jacob met Rachel by a well. Genesis 29..
Jesus was tired and while his disciples went into the village to buy bread he sat by a well. There he just happened to encounter a Samaritan woman, forgave her of her sins and through her witness many in the village came to salvation. John 4:11.