Genesis 26:33

And he gave it the name of Shibah: so the name of that town is Beer-sheba to this day.

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In The King James Version

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

In Context

32And that day Isaac's servants came to him and gave him word of the water-hole which they had made, and said to him, We have come to water.

34And when Esau was forty years old, he took as his wives Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

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Cross References

Genesis 21:31So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.

Nehemiah 11:27And in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba and its daughter-towns,

Matthew Henry on Genesis 26:27-34

Isaac's Covenant with Abimelech. ( b. c. 1760.) 26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army. 27 And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? 28 And they said, We saw certainly that the Lord was with thee: and we said, Let there be now an oath betwixt us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make a covenant with thee; 29 That thou wilt do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee, and as… Read the whole commentary →

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