Genesis 21:31 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³¹ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³¹ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ Therefore that place was called Beersheba [well of the oath], because there both parties swore an oath.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

Common English Bible

³¹ Therefore, the name of that place is Beer-sheba because there they gave each other their word.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because there both of them did swear.

Genesis 21:31 Cross References

Genesis 21:14

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 21:32

So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:23

And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba.

Genesis 26:31

And they rose up betimes in the morning, and sware one to another: and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.

Genesis 26:33

And he called it Shibah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

Genesis 46:1

And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beer-sheba, and offered sacrifices unto the God of his father Isaac.

2 Samuel 17:11

But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

2 Samuel 24:7

and came to the strong hold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites: and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beer-sheba.

1 Kings 19:3

And when he saw that, he arose, and went for his life, and came to Beer-sheba, which belongeth to Judah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 4:25

And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, all the days of Solomon.

Nehemiah 11:27

and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and the towns thereof;

Amos 5:5

but seek not Beth-el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el shall come to nought.

Joshua 15:28

and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;

Judges 20:1

Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD at Mizpah.