Places
Beersheba
Beersheba is the place of Abraham's and Isaac's covenants; in Genesis 46 Jacob offers sacrifices there and receives God's assurance before going down to Egypt.
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Places
First mention
Genesis 21:14
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Scripture references
- Genesis 21:14
She wandered off into the desert of Beersheba.
- Genesis 21:31
This was why the place was called Beersheba: because there the two of them swore an oath.
- Genesis 21:33
And Abraham planted a tamarisk at Beersheba...
- Genesis 22:19
together they set out for Beersheba, and Abraham settled in Beersheba.
- Genesis 26:23
From there he went up to Beersheba.
- Genesis 26:25
There he built an altar and invoked the name of Yahweh. There he pitched his tent, and there Isaac's servants sank a well.
- Genesis 26:31
Early next morning, they exchanged oaths. Then Isaac bade them farewell and they left him as friends.
- Genesis 26:33
So he called the well Sheba, and hence the town is named Beersheba to this day.
- Genesis 28:10
Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.
- Genesis 46:1
So Israel set out with all his possessions. Arriving at Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
- Genesis 46:5
So Jacob left Beersheba. Israel's sons conveyed their father Jacob, their little children and their wives in the waggons Pharaoh had sent to fetch him.