Genesis 21:32

World English Bible (2000)

So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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  • Gen 10:14 : 14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
  • Gen 14:13 : 13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. Now he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner; and these were allies of Abram.
  • Gen 21:27 : 27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
  • Gen 26:8 : 8 It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
  • Gen 26:14 : 14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
  • Gen 31:53 : 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
  • Exod 13:17 : 17 It happened, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, "Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt;"
  • Judg 13:1 : 1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
  • 1 Sam 18:3 : 3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

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    29Abimelech said to Abraham, "What do these seven ewe lambs which you have set by themselves mean?"

    30He said, "You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well."

    31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.

  • Gen 21:22-27
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    22It happened at that time, that Abimelech and Phicol the captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, "God is with you in all that you do.

    23Now, therefore, swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son. But according to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall do to me, and to the land in which you have lived as a foreigner."

    24Abraham said, "I will swear."

    25Abraham complained to Abimelech because of a water well, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

    26Abimelech said, "I don't know who has done this thing. Neither did you tell me, neither did I hear of it, until today."

    27Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.

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

  • Gen 26:25-26
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    25He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

    26Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his army.

  • Gen 26:30-33
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    30He made them a feast, and they ate and drank.

    31They rose up some time in the morning, and swore one to another. Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

    32It happened 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."

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    33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

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    23He went up from there to Beersheba.

  • Gen 26:15
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    15Now all the wells which his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

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    1There was a famine in the land, besides the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. Isaac went to Abimelech king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

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    15Abimelech said, "Behold, my land is before you. Dwell where it pleases you."

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    50Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

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    8It happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.

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    27They went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trod [the grapes], and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.

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    28They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. 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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    17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

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    8Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ear. The men were very scared.

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    1Now the Philistines gathered together all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites encamped by the spring which is in Jezreel.

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    1Abraham traveled from there toward the land of the South, and lived between Kadesh and Shur. He lived as a foreigner in Gerar.

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    17Abraham prayed to God. God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his female servants, and they bore children.

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