Genesis 21:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there they both swore an oath.

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  • Gen 26:33 : 33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.
  • Gen 21:14 : 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. So she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
  • Gen 26:23 : 23 And he went up from there to Beersheba.
  • Josh 15:28 : 28 Hazarshual, Beersheba, Bizjothjah,
  • Judg 20:1 : 1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation gathered together as one, from Dan to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.
  • 2 Sam 17:11 : 11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.
  • 1 Kgs 4:25 : 25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

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    32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba; then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

    33 And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

  • Gen 26:31-33
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    31 And they arose early in the morning, and swore one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

    32 And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, We have found water.

    33 And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day.

  • Gen 21:29-30
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    29 And Abimelech said to Abraham, What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves?

    30 And he said, For these seven ewe lambs you shall take from my hand, that they may be a witness that I have dug this well.

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    14 Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.

  • Gen 22:19
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    19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

  • Gen 26:20-23
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    20 And the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, The water is ours: and he called the name of the well Esek; because they quarreled with him.

    21 And they dug another well, and quarreled over that also: and he called the name of it Sitnah.

    22 And he moved from there, and dug another well; and for that they quarreled not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

    23 And he went up from there to Beersheba.

  • Gen 21:23-25
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    23 Now therefore swear to me by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my grandson. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have sojourned.

    24 And Abraham said, I will swear.

    25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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    27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and both of them made a covenant.

  • Gen 35:14-15
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    14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering on it, and he poured oil on it.

    15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.

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    25 And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants dug a well.

  • Gen 31:53
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    53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.

  • Num 21:16
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    16 And from there they went to Beer: that is the well of which the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

  • Gen 31:47-48
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    47 And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.

    48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed;

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    28 And they dwelt at Beersheba, Moladah, and Hazarshual,

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    28 Hazarshual, Beersheba, Bizjothjah,

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    1 And Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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    2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,

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    16 And said, By myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son:

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    13 For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself,

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    20 And he erected an altar there and called it El Elohe Israel.

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    27 And at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba, and in the villages thereof,

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    16 Even the covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;

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    28 And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with you: and we said, Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you;

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    7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

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    17 And Isaac departed from there, and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

    18 And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which they had dug 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.

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    9 So the servant put his hand under the thigh of Abraham his master, and swore to him concerning this matter.

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    14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

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    9 The covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;