Genesis 21:31

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So he called that place Be’ĕrsheḇa, because the two of them swore an oath there.

Cross References

Genesis 21:14

And Aḇraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water, which he gave to Haḡar, putting it on her shoulder, also the boy, and sent her away. And she left and wandered in the Wilderness of Be’ĕrsheḇa.

Genesis 21:32

Thus they made a covenant at Be’ĕrsheḇa. And Aḇimeleḵ rose with Piḵol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 26:23

And from there he went up to Be’ĕrsheḇa.

Genesis 26:31

And they rose early in the morning and swore an oath with one another. And Yitsḥaq let them go, and they departed from him in peace.

Genesis 26:33

So he called it Shiḇah. Therefore the name of the city is Be’ĕrsheḇa to this day.

Genesis 46:1

And Yisra’ĕl set out with all that he had, and came to Be’ĕrsheḇa, and slaughtered slaughterings to the Elohim of his father Yitsḥaq.

2 Samuel 17:11

“But I advise: Let all Yisra’ĕl without fail be gathered to you, from Dan to Be’ĕrsheḇa, as numerous as the sand by the sea, and that you yourself go to battle.

2 Samuel 24:7

And they came to the stronghold of Tsor and to all the cities of the Ḥiwwites and the Kena‛anites, and went out to South Yehuḏah as far as Be’ĕrsheḇa.

1 Kings 19:3

And he feared, and rose up and ran for his life, and went to Be’ĕrsheḇa, which belongs to Yehuḏah, and left his servant there.

1 Kings 4:25

And Yehuḏah and Yisra’ĕl dwelt safely, each man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan as far as Be’ĕrsheḇa, all the days of Shelomoh.

Nehemiah 11:27

and in Ḥatsar Shu‛al, and in Be’ĕrsheḇa and its villages,

Amos 5:5

but do not seek Bĕyth Ěl, nor enter Gilgal, nor pass over to Be’ĕrsheḇa. For Gilgal shall certainly go into exile, and Bĕyth Ěl become a non-entity.

Joshua 15:28

and Ḥatsar Shu‛al, and Be’ĕrsheḇa, and Bizyothyah,

Judges 20:1

And all the children of Yisra’ĕl came out, from Dan to Be’ĕrsheḇa, and from the land of Gil‛aḏ, and the congregation assembled as one man before יהוה at Mitspah.