Beer-Sheba

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

1. The most southern city of Palestine

• Judges 20:1 Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

Named by Abraham, who lived there

• Genesis 21:31–33 So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath. After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there…
• Genesis 22:19 Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

The place where Isaac lived

• Genesis 26:23 From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,

Jacob went out from, toward Haran

• Genesis 28:10 Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

Sacrifices offered at, by Jacob; when journeying to Egypt

• Genesis 46:1 So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

In the inheritance of Judah

• Joshua 15:20 This is the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Judah.
• Joshua 15:28 Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
• 2 Samuel 24:7 They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.

Afterward assigned to Simeon

• Joshua 19:2 and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
• Joshua 19:9 The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the territory of Judah, because the share for Judah’s descendants was too large for them. So the Simeonites received an inheritance within Judah’s portion.
• 1 Chronicles 4:28 They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

Two sons of Samuel were judges at

• 1 Samuel 8:2 The name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beersheba.

Became a seat of idolatrous worship

• Amos 5:5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
• Amos 8:14 Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’— they will fall, never to rise again.”

2. The well of, belonged to Abraham and Isaac

• Genesis 21:25–26 But when Abraham complained to Abimelech about a well that Abimelech’s servants had seized, Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

3. Wilderness of, Hagar miraculously sees a well in

• Genesis 21:14–19 Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes. Then she went off and sat down ne…

An angel fed Elijah in

• 1 Kings 19:5 Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
• 1 Kings 19:7 A second time the angel of the LORD returned and touched him, saying, “Get up and eat, or the journey will be too much for you.”