Genesis 21:31
Therefore that place was called Bersabee: because both of them did swear.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
In Context
32And they made a league for the well of oath.
Cross References
Genesis 26:23And he went up from that place to Bersabee,
Genesis 46:1And Israel taking his journey, with all that he had, came to the well of the oath, and killing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,
Judges 20:1Then all the children of Israel went out and gathered together as one man from Dan to Bersabee, with the land of Galaad, to the Lord in Maspha:
2 Samuel 24:7They passed near the walls of Tyre, and all the land of the Hevite, and the Chanaanite, and they came to the south of Juda into Bersabee:
1 Kings 19:3Then Elias was afraid, and rising up he went whithersoever he had a mind: and he came to Bersabee of Juda, and left his servant there,
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 →