Genesis 26:33

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He called it Shibah. Therefore, the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

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  • Gen 21:31 : 31 That is why the place was called Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
  • Gen 26:28 : 28 They replied, "We have clearly seen that the LORD has been with you. So we said, 'There should now be an oath between us and you; let us make a covenant with you.'"

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  • Gen 21:30-33
    4 verses
    82%

    30He replied, 'Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness that I dug this well.'

    31That is why the place was called Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

    32After making the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

    33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the Lord, the Eternal God.

  • Gen 26:32
    79%

    32That same day, Isaac's servants came and told him about the well they had dug, saying, "We have found water!"

  • Gen 26:17-23
    7 verses
    78%

    17So Isaac departed from there, pitched his tent in the Valley of Gerar, and settled there.

    18Isaac reopened the wells that had been dug in the days of his father Abraham, which the Philistines had stopped up after Abraham's death; he gave them the same names his father had given them.

    19Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of flowing water there.

    20But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, "The water is ours!" So he named the well Esek, because they disputed with him.

    21Isaac’s servants then dug another well, but they also quarreled over it. So he named it Sitnah.

    22He moved from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over this one. So he named it Rehoboth, and he said, "Now the LORD has given us room, and we will flourish in the land."

    23From there Isaac went up to Beersheba.

  • Gen 16:14
    77%

    14Therefore the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is located between Kadesh and Bered.

  • Gen 26:25
    74%

    25So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

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

  • Gen 22:19
    73%

    19Then Abraham returned to his young men, and together they set out and went to Beersheba, and Abraham settled in Beersheba.

  • 1 Chr 4:28
    73%

    28They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-Shual,

  • Josh 19:2
    72%

    2In their inheritance, they had Beersheba, Sheba, and Moladah,

  • Neh 11:27
    72%

    27as well as in Hazar-shual, Beersheba and its surrounding villages,

  • Gen 35:15
    71%

    15Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

  • Num 21:16
    70%

    16From there they went to Beer. This is the well where the LORD said to Moses, 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

  • Gen 26:6
    69%

    6So Isaac settled in Gerar.

  • Gen 33:20
    69%

    20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

  • Gen 46:1
    69%

    1Israel set out with everything he had and came to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

  • Num 32:38
    69%

    38as well as Nebo, Baal-meon (with their names changed), and Sibmah, and they gave new names to the cities they rebuilt.

  • Josh 18:25
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    25Gibeon, Ramah, and Beeroth,

  • Gen 26:15
    69%

    15The Philistines stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug during the days of Abraham his father, filling them with dirt.

  • Gen 28:19
    69%

    19He called the name of that place Bethel, but previously the name of the city was called Luz.

  • Gen 24:62
    68%

    62Now Isaac had come from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

  • Num 32:36
    68%

    36They also built Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds.

  • Gen 35:27
    68%

    27Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-Arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 25:11
    68%

    11After Abraham’s death, God blessed his son Isaac, who settled near Beer-lahai-roi.

  • Gen 29:3
    68%

    3All the flocks would gather there, and the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s opening to water the sheep, and then they would put the stone back over the well’s mouth in its place.

  • Gen 31:47
    67%

    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    67%

    7They went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went to the Negev of Judah in Beersheba.

  • 1 Chr 7:37
    67%

    37Bezer, Hod, Shamma, Shilshah, Ithran, and Beera were also included.

  • Josh 18:22
    67%

    22Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, and Bethel,

  • Gen 24:14
    67%

    14May it be that when I say to a young woman, 'Please let down your jar so that I may drink,' and she says, 'Drink, and I'll water your camels too,' let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • Gen 28:10
    67%

    10Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

  • 1 Chr 4:31
    67%

    31Beth-Marcaboth, Hazar-Susim, Beth-Biri, and Shaaraim. These were their cities until the reign of David.