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Beer-Sheba

Bible verses about Beer-Sheba in the King James Version.

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1. The most southern city of Palestine

  • Judges 20:1

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

Named by Abraham, who lived there

  • Genesis 21:31–33

    Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them. Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a grove in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

  • Genesis 22:19

    So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.

The place where Isaac lived

Jacob went out from, toward Haran

  • Genesis 28:10

    And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.

Sacrifices offered at, by Jacob; when journeying to Egypt

  • 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.

In the inheritance of Judah

  • Joshua 15:20

    This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

  • Joshua 15:28

    And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah,

  • 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, even to Beer-sheba.

Afterward assigned to Simeon

  • Joshua 19:2

    And they had in their inheritance Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,

  • Joshua 19:9

    Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.

  • 1 Chronicles 4:28

    And they dwelt at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-shual,

Two sons of Samuel were judges at

  • 1 Samuel 8:2

    Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

Became a seat of idolatrous worship

  • 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.

  • Amos 8:14

    They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy god, O Dan, liveth; and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again.

2. The well of, belonged to Abraham and Isaac

  • Genesis 21:25

    And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

  • Genesis 21:26

    And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

3. Wilderness of, Hagar miraculously sees a well in

  • Genesis 21:14–19

    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. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept. …

An angel fed Elijah in

  • 1 Kings 19:5

    And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

  • 1 Kings 19:7

    And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.