Genesis 26:33

So hee called it Shibah: therefore the name of the citie is called Beer-sheba vnto this day.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 same day Izhaks seruantes came and tolde him of a well, which they had digged, and said vnto him, We haue found water.

34Nowe when Esau was fourtie yeere olde, he tooke to wife Iudith, the daughter of Beeri an Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon an Hittite also.

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Cross References

Genesis 21:31Wherefore the place is called Beer-sheba, because there they both sware.

Nehemiah 11:27And in Hazer-shual, and in Beer-sheba, and in the villages thereof,

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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