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Beersheba in the Bible

Beersheba is where Abraham and Isaac dig wells and swear treaties, and the southern marker of the land. Elijah leaves his servant here before walking on into the wilderness.

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Verses mentioning Beersheba

36 occurrences across 33 verses in the King James Version.

  1. 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 Beersheba.

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  2. Genesis 21:31

    Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them. Beersheba: that is, The well of the oath

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  3. Genesis 21:32

    Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

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  4. Genesis 21:33

    And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God. grove: or, tree

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  5. Genesis 22:19

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

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  6. Genesis 26:23

    And he went up from thence to Beersheba.

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  7. Genesis 26:33

    And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beersheba unto this day. Shebah: That is, an oath Beersheba: that is, the well of the oath

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  8. Genesis 28:10

    And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. Haran: Gr. Charran

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  9. Genesis 46:1

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

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  10. Genesis 46:5

    And Jacob rose up from Beersheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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  11. Joshua 15:28

    And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,

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  12. Joshua 19:2

    And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,

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  13. Judges 20:1

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

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  14. 1 Samuel 3:20

    And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD. established: or, faithful

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  15. 1 Samuel 8:2

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

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  16. 2 Samuel 3:10

    To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.

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  17. 2 Samuel 17:11

    Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person. that thou: Heb. that thy face, or, presence go, etc

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  18. 2 Samuel 24:2

    For the king said to Joab the captain of the host, which was with him, Go now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, and number ye the people, that I may know the number of the people. Go: or, Compass

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  19. 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 Beersheba.

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  20. 2 Samuel 24:15

    So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

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  21. 1 Kings 4:25

    And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. safely: Heb. confidently

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  22. 1 Kings 19:3

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

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  23. 2 Kings 12:1

    In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Zibiah of Beersheba.

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  24. 2 Kings 23:8

    And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

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  25. 1 Chronicles 4:28

    And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,

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