Genesis 21:33

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Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the LORD, the eternal God.

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  • Gen 4:26 : 26 And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the LORD.
  • Gen 12:8 : 8 Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.
  • Ps 90:2 : 2 Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God.
  • Isa 40:28 : 28 Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is an eternal God, the Creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.
  • Deut 33:27 : 27 The everlasting God is a refuge, and underneath you are his eternal arms; he has driven out enemies before you, and has said,“Destroy!”
  • Jer 10:10 : 10 The LORD is the only true God. He is the living God and the everlasting King. When he shows his anger the earth shakes. None of the nations can stand up to his fury.
  • Amos 8:14 : 14 These are the ones who now take oaths in the name of the sinful idol goddess of Samaria. They vow,‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or‘As surely as your beloved one lives, O Beer Sheba!’ But they will fall down and not get up again.”
  • Rom 1:20 : 20 For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes– his eternal power and divine nature– have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.
  • Rom 16:26 : 26 but now is disclosed, and through the prophetic scriptures has been made known to all the nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith–
  • 1 Tim 1:17 : 17 Now to the eternal king, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever! Amen.
  • Judg 3:7 : 7 Othniel: A Model Leader The Israelites did evil in the LORD’s sight. They forgot the LORD their God and worshiped the Baals and the Asherahs.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is what the high and exalted one says, the one who rules forever, whose name is holy:“I dwell in an exalted and holy place, but also with the discouraged and humiliated, in order to cheer up the humiliated and to encourage the discouraged.
  • Gen 26:23 : 23 From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.
  • Gen 26:25 : 25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
  • Gen 26:33 : 33 So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.
  • Deut 16:21 : 21 Examples of Legal Cases You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the LORD your God which you build for yourself.

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  • Gen 21:30-32
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    30He replied,“You must take these seven ewe lambs from my hand as legal proof that I dug this well.”

    31That is why he named that place Beer Sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

    32So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

  • Gen 26:33
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    33So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.

  • Gen 21:34
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    34So Abraham stayed in the land of the Philistines for quite some time.

  • Gen 13:3-4
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    3And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

    4This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the LORD.

  • Gen 22:14
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    14And Abraham called the name of that place“The LORD provides.” It is said to this day,“In the mountain of the LORD provision will be made.”

  • Gen 13:18
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    18So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the LORD there.

  • Gen 26:25
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    25Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

  • Gen 33:20
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    20There he set up an altar and called it“The God of Israel is God.”

  • Gen 12:6-8
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    6Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem.(At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

    7The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

    8Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and worshiped the LORD.

  • Gen 22:19
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    19Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.

  • Ezek 17:5
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    5He took one of the seedlings of the land, placed it in a cultivated plot; a shoot by abundant water, like a willow he planted it.

  • Gen 35:14-15
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    14So Jacob set up a sacred stone pillar in the place where God spoke with him. He poured out a drink offering on it, and then he poured oil on it.

    15Jacob named the place where God spoke with him Bethel.

  • Gen 23:17
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    17So Abraham secured Ephron’s field in Machpelah, next to Mamre, including the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were in the field and all around its border,

  • Gen 16:14
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    14That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi.(It is located between Kadesh and Bered.)

  • Gen 26:23
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    23From there Isaac went up to Beer Sheba.

  • Gen 21:23-24
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    23Now swear to me right here in God’s name that you will not deceive me, my children, or my descendants. Show me, and the land where you are staying, the same loyalty that I have shown you.”

    24Abraham said,“I swear to do this.”

  • Gen 31:53
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    53May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.

  • Deut 16:21
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    21Examples of Legal Cases You must not plant any kind of tree as a sacred Asherah pole near the altar of the LORD your God which you build for yourself.

  • Gen 22:9
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    9When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.

  • Gen 46:1
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    1The Family of Jacob goes to Egypt So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. When he came to Beer Sheba he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

  • Gen 2:8
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    8The LORD God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.

  • Gen 35:7
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    7He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

  • Gen 26:17
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    17So Isaac left there and settled in the Gerar Valley.

  • Gen 21:27
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    27Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.

  • Ps 80:15
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    15the root your right hand planted, the shoot you made to grow!

  • Gen 22:16
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    16and said,“‘I solemnly swear by my own name,’ decrees the LORD,‘that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

  • Gen 17:1
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    1The Sign of the Covenant When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said,“I am the Sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.

  • Gen 14:19
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    19He blessed Abram, saying,“Blessed be Abram by the Most High God, Creator of heaven and earth.

  • Gen 19:27
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    27Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

  • Ps 105:9
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    9the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!

  • Gen 17:19
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    19God said,“No, Sarah your wife is going to bear you a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will confirm my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant for his descendants after him.

  • Gen 17:7
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    7I will confirm my covenant as a perpetual covenant between me and you. It will extend to your descendants after you throughout their generations. I will be your God and the God of your descendants after you.