Genesis 26:33

Tree of Life Version

So he called it Pledge. That is why the city’s name is Beer-sheba to this day.

Cross References

Genesis 21:14

So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

Genesis 21:31

That is why that place is named Beer-sheba, because there both of them made a pledge,

Genesis 26:28

They said, “We’ve clearly seen that Adonai has been with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an agreement between us—between us and you—and let us make a covenant with you:

Genesis 26:32

Now it happened that on that day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well that they dug, and said to him, “We’ve found water.”

Nehemiah 11:27

in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba and its towns,

Amos 5:5

But do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not cross over to Beersheba. For Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to trouble.