Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.
- BSB So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
- NKJV Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because the two of them swore an oath there.
- NASB Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because there the two of them took an oath.
- NLT Then he named the place Beersheba (which means “well of the oath”), because that was where they had sworn the oath.
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- Gen 26:33He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
- Gen 21:14Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle 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.
- Josh 15:28Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
- Gen 26:23He went up from there to Beersheba.
- 1 Kgs 4:25Judah and Israel lived safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.
- Judg 20:1Then 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 Yahweh at Mizpah.
- 2 Sam 17:11But 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.
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