Genesis 26:33

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 21:31 : 31 Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
  • Gen 26:28 : 28 They 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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  • Gen 21:30-33
    4 verses
    82%

    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.

    32So 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.

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

  • Gen 26:32
    79%

    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."

  • Gen 26:17-23
    7 verses
    78%

    17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.

    18Isaac 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. He called their names after the names by which his father had called them.

    19Isaac's servants dug in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

    20The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.

    21They dug another well, and they argued over that, also. He called its name Sitnah.

    22He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."

    23He went up from there to Beersheba.

  • Gen 16:14
    77%

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

  • Gen 26:25
    74%

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

  • Josh 15:28
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    28Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

  • Gen 22:19
    73%

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

  • 1 Chr 4:28
    73%

    28They lived at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,

  • Josh 19:2
    72%

    2They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

  • Neh 11:27
    72%

    27and in Hazar Shual, and in Beersheba and its towns,

  • Gen 35:15
    71%

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

  • Num 21:16
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    16From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

  • Gen 26:6
    69%

    6Isaac lived in Gerar.

  • Gen 33:20
    69%

    20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

  • Gen 46:1
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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.

  • Num 32:38
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    38and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

  • Josh 18:25
    69%

    25Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,

  • Gen 26:15
    69%

    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.

  • Gen 28:19
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    19He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

  • Gen 24:62
    68%

    62Isaac came from the way of Beer Lahai Roi, for he lived in the land of the South.

  • Num 32:36
    68%

    36and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

  • Gen 35:27
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    27Jacob came to Isaac his father, to Mamre, to Kiriath Arba (which is Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac lived as foreigners.

  • Gen 25:11
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    11It happened after the death of Abraham that God blessed Isaac, his son. Isaac lived by Beer Lahai Roi.

  • Gen 29:3
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    3There all the flocks were gathered. They rolled the stone from the well's mouth, and watered the sheep, and put the stone again on the well's mouth in its place.

  • Gen 31:47
    67%

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

  • 2 Sam 24:7
    67%

    7and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

  • 1 Chr 7:37
    67%

    37Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

  • Josh 18:22
    67%

    22Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

  • Gen 24:14
    67%

    14Let it happen, that the young lady to whom I will say, 'Please let down your pitcher, that I may drink,' and she will say, 'Drink, and I will also give your camels a drink,'--let her be the one you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master."

  • Gen 28:10
    67%

    10Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

  • 1 Chr 4:31
    67%

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