Genesis 21:31

WEB

³¹Therefore he called that place Beersheba,^[+] because they both swore an oath there.

KJV

³¹Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.

BSB

³¹So that place was called Beersheba,^[+] because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

FBV

³¹That's why he called the place Beersheba,^[+] because the two of them swore an oath to each other.

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Extra References

Genesis 26:33

³³He called it “Shibah”.^[+] Therefore the name of the city is “Beersheba”^[+] to this day.

¹⁴Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a container of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

Joshua 15:28

²⁸Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

1 Kings 4:25

²⁵Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

Judges 20:1

¹Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to the LORD at Mizpah.

Genesis 26:23

²³He went up from there to Beersheba.

2 Samuel 17:11

¹¹But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together to you, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that you go to battle in your own person.