Genesis 20:1
Abraham and Abimelech Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident in Gerar,
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- Gen 26:6 : 6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
- Gen 18:1 : 1 Three Special Visitors The LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre while he was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest time of the day.
- Gen 26:1 : 1 Isaac and Abimelech There was a famine in the land, subsequent to the earlier famine that occurred in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines at Gerar.
- Gen 16:1 : 1 The Birth of Ishmael Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, had not given birth to any children, but she had an Egyptian servant named Hagar.
- Gen 16:7 : 7 The LORD’s angel found Hagar near a spring of water in the wilderness– the spring that is along the road to Shur.
- Gen 16:14 : 14 That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.(It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)
- Gen 10:19 : 19 and the borders of Canaan extended from Sidon all the way to Gerar as far as Gaza, and all the way to Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
- Gen 13:1 : 1 Abram’s Solution to the Strife So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot.
- Gen 14:7 : 7 Then they attacked En Mishpat(that is, Kadesh) again, and they conquered all the territory of the Amalekites, as well as the Amorites who were living in Hazazon Tamar.
- Gen 24:62 : 62 Now Isaac came from Beer Lahai Roi, for he was living in the Negev.
- Gen 26:20 : 20 the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen, saying,“The water belongs to us!” So Isaac named the well Esek because they argued with him about it.
- Gen 26:26 : 26 Now Abimelech had come to him from Gerar along with Ahuzzah his friend and Phicol the commander of his army.
- Num 13:26 : 26 The Spies’ Reports They came back to Moses and Aaron and to the whole community of the Israelites in the wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They reported to the whole community and showed the fruit of the land.
- Num 20:16 : 16 So when we cried to the LORD, he heard our voice and sent a messenger, and has brought us up out of Egypt. Now we are here in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your country.
- Deut 1:19 : 19 Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the LORD our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.
- Deut 32:51 : 51 for both of you rebelled against me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribah Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin when you did not show me proper respect among the Israelites.
- 1 Sam 15:7 : 7 Then Saul struck down the Amalekites all the way from Havilah to Shur, which is next to Egypt.
- 2 Chr 14:13-14 : 13 and Asa and his army chased them as far as Gerar. The Cushites were wiped out; they were shattered before the LORD and his army. The men of Judah carried off a huge amount of plunder. 14 They defeated all the cities surrounding Gerar, for the LORD caused them to panic. The men of Judah looted all the cities, for they contained a huge amount of goods.
- Ps 29:8 : 8 The LORD’s shout shakes the wilderness, the LORD shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
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