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Genesis 22:19

in Genesis 22

Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

This verse in Genesis 22

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Abraham lifted up his eyes . . . and behold . . . a ram, &c.--No method was more admirably calculated to give the patriarch a distinct idea of the purpose of grace than this scenic representation: and hence our Lord's allusion to it (Joh 8:56).

This site's exposition

Abraham went back to his servants

The verse counts the party going home and does not name Isaac. Genesis never again records the father and the son speaking to each other. Beersheba is where Isaac is living when the LORD appears to him in chapter 26; the next thing the book reports is Sarah's death.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

So Abraham returned to his young men,....

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיָּ֤שָׁבand he returned

    vaiyashovH7725 →1056 times

  • אַבְרָהָם֙Abraham

    ʾavrahamH85 →175 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • נְעָרָ֔יוservants his

    nearavH5288 →239 times

  • וַיָּקֻ֛מוּand they arose

    vaiyakumuH6965 →628 times

  • וַיֵּלְכ֥וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • יַחְדָּ֖וtogether

    yachdavH3162 →141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • בְּאֵ֣רBeer

    beerH884 →68 times

  • שָׁ֑בַעSheba

    shava'H884 →68 times

  • וַיֵּ֥שֶׁבand he dwelt

    vaiyeshevH3427 →1079 times

  • אַבְרָהָ֖םAbraham

    ʾavrahamH85 →175 times

  • בִּבְאֵ֥רin Beer

    biverH884 →68 times

  • שָֽׁבַע׃ פSheba

    shava'H884 →68 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 21:31

    So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 26:33

      So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 21:14

      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…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 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.

  • Through

    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.

    it leads to

    • Judges 11:11

      So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him their leader and commander. And Jephthah repeated all his terms in the presence of the LORD at Mizpah.

    • 1 Samuel 3:20

      So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

    • Judges 21:5

      The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before…

    • 2 Samuel 3:10

      to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”

    • Joshua 22:12

      And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.

Where this verse is studied

About Genesis

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.