Genesis 21:31
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
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- Gen 26:23 : 23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
- Josh 15:28 : 28 and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah,
- 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
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- Gen 21:32-332 verses84%
32So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
33And [Abraham] planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God.
- Gen 26:31-333 verses82%
31And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.
32And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.
33And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.
- Gen 26:20-234 verses74%
20And the herdsmen of Gerar strove with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
21And they digged another well, and they strove for that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.
22And 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 Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
23And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.
- Gen 21:23-253 verses74%
23now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned.
24And Abraham said, I will swear.
25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of the well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.
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28And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,
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28and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah,
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1And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.
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2And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
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20And he erected there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
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27and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof,
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- Gen 26:17-182 verses68%
17And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.
18And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham; and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.