Genesis 21:30
And he said, Take these seven lambs from me as a witness that I have made this water-hole.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
29Then Abimelech said, What are these seven lambs which you have put on one side?
31So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.
Cross References
Genesis 26:18And he made again the water-holes which had been made in the days of Abraham his father, and which had been stopped up by the Philistines; and he gave them the names which his father had given them.
Genesis 31:52They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.
Joshua 24:27And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:23-33
Abimelech's Covenant with Abraham. ( b. c. 1892.) 22 And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest: 23 Now therefore swear unto me here by God that thou wilt not deal falsely with me, nor with my son, nor with my son's son: but according to the kindness that I have done unto thee, thou shalt do unto me, and to the land wherein thou hast sojourned. 24 And Abraham said, I will swear. 25 And Abraham… Read the whole commentary →