Genesis 21:31

Modern English Version

Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Cross References

Genesis 21:14

So Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and sent her away with the child. So she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 21:32

Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba. Then Abimelech rose with Phicol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:23

He went up from there to Beer-sheba.

Genesis 26:31

They rose up early in the morning and swore an oath with one another. 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 to this day.

Genesis 46:1

So Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

2 Samuel 17:11

“Therefore my advice is for all of Israel, from Dan to Beer-sheba, to be completely gathered to you like the multitude of the sand along the shoreline and for you to go to battle in person.

2 Samuel 24:7

They went to the fortress of Tyre and all of the towns of the Hivites and Canaanites. They went to the Negev and Beer-sheba.

1 Kings 19:3

When he saw that she was serious, he arose and ran for his life to Beer-sheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 4:25

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

Nehemiah 11:27

and at Hazar-shual, and at Beer-sheba and its villages,

Amos 5:5

But do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beer-sheba; for Gilgal will surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall be no more.

Joshua 15:28

Hazar-shual, Beer-sheba, Biziothiah,

Judges 20:1

All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba, and also from the land of Gilead, went out and gathered together in an assembly as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.