Genesis 21:31
29 and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
30 He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
32 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.
33 And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.
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- ÅB
- Derfor kalte de dette sted Be'erseba[^1]; for der gjorde de begge sin ed.
- OTB
- Derfor ble stedet kalt Beersheba, fordi de to avla en ed der.
- B1930
- Derfor kalte de dette sted Be'erseba; for der gjorde de begge sin ed. / < Edsbrønnen.>
- BSB
- So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
- KJV
- Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
- WEB
- Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
- ASV
- Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba. Because there they sware both of them.
- DARBY
- Therefore he called that place Beer-sheba, because there they had sworn, both of them.
- BLB
- Upon thus, he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them swore an oath.
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Genesis 26:33
So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.
Les i sammenhengGenesis 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 Beersheba.
Les i sammenheng1 Kings 4:25
Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
Les i sammenhengGenesis 26:23
From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,
Les i sammenheng2 Samuel 17:11
Instead, I advise that all Israel from Dan to Beersheba—a multitude like the sand on the seashore—be gathered to you, and that you yourself lead them into battle.
Les i sammenhengJudges 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.
Les i sammenhengJoshua 15:28
Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
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