Joshua 15:28
Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
BSB
ASV
and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah,
KJV
And Hazar–shual, and Beer–sheba, and Bizjothjah,
Beer-sheba - A city, famous in the book of Genesis as the residence of the patriarchs Abraham and Jacob, Gen 22:19; Gen 28:10; Gen 46:1. See the note on Gen 21:31. It lay on the way between Canaan and Egypt, about forty miles from Jerusalem.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Genesis 26:33So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
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So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
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1 Chronicles 4:28They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,
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Their inheritance lay within the territory of Judah and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,
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Genesis 21:14Early 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…
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I hurried without hesitating to keep Your commandments.
And Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,
But while he was still alive, Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines and sent them away from his son Isaac to the land of the east.
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
And they got up early the next morning and swore an oath to each other. Then Isaac sent them on their way, and they left him in peace.
