Genesis 26:33

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

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  • Gen 21:31 : 31 So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
  • Gen 26:28 : 28 And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

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  • Gen 21:30-33
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    82%

    30 And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.

    31 So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

    32 So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

    33 And Abraham, after planting a holy tree in Beer-sheba, gave worship to the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

  • Gen 26:32
    79%

    32 And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

  • Gen 26:17-23
    7 verses
    78%

    17 So Isaac went away from there, and put up his tents in the valley of Gerar, making his living-place there.

    18 And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.

    19 Now Isaac's servants made holes in the valley, and came to a spring of flowing water.

    20 But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.

    21 Then they made another water-hole, and there was a fight about that, so he gave it the name of Sitnah.

    22 Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.

    23 And from there he went on to Beer-sheba.

  • Gen 16:14
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    14 So that fountain was named, Fountain of Life and Vision: it is between Kadesh and Bered.

  • Gen 26:25
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    25 Then he made an altar there, and gave worship to the name of the Lord, and he put up his tents there, and there his servants made a water-hole.

  • Josh 15:28
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    28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;

  • Gen 22:19
    73%

    19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.

  • 1 Chr 4:28
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    28 And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual,

  • Josh 19:2
    72%

    2 And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah

  • Neh 11:27
    72%

    27 And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,

  • Gen 35:15
    71%

    15 And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

  • Num 21:16
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    16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

  • Gen 26:6
    69%

    6 So Isaac went on living in Gerar;

  • Gen 33:20
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    20 And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.

  • Gen 46:1
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    1 And Israel went on his journey with all he had, and came to Beer-sheba, where he made offerings to the God of his father Isaac.

  • Num 32:38
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    38 And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.

  • Josh 18:25
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    25 Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth

  • Gen 26:15
    69%

    15 Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.

  • Gen 28:19
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    19 And he gave that place the name of Beth-el, but before that time the town was named Luz.

  • Gen 24:62
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    62 Now Isaac had come through the waste land to Beer-lahai-roi; for he was living in the South.

  • Num 32:36
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    36 And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

  • Gen 35:27
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    27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.

  • Gen 25:11
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    11 Now after the death of Abraham, the blessing of God was with Isaac, his son.

  • Gen 29:3
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    3 And all the flocks would come together there, and when the stone had been rolled away, they would give the sheep water, and put the stone back again in its place on the mouth of the water-hole.

  • Gen 31:47
    67%

    47 And the name Laban gave it was Jegar-sahadutha: but Jacob gave it the name of Galeed.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
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    7 And to the walled town of Tyre, and to all the towns of the Hivites and the Canaanites: and they went out to the South of Judah at Beer-sheba.

  • 1 Chr 7:37
    67%

    37 Bezer and Hod and Shamma and Shilshah and Ithran and Beera.

  • Josh 18:22
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    22 And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el

  • Gen 24:14
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    14 Now, may the girl to whom I say, Let down your vessel and give me a drink, and who says in answer, Here is a drink for you and let me give water to your camels: may she be the one marked out by you for your servant Isaac: so may I be certain that you have been good to my master Abraham.

  • Gen 28:10
    67%

    10 So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.

  • 1 Chr 4:31
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    31 And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their towns till David became king.