Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 26:23He went up from there to Beersheba.
Genesis 46:1Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.
Judges 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 the LORD at Mizpah.
2 Samuel 24:7and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.
1 Kings 19:3When he saw that, he arose and ran for his life, and came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, 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 →