Genesis 26:33

So he called it, Shibah. For this cause, hath the name of the city, been Beer-sheba, unto this day.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 it came to pass, on the same day, that the servants of Isaac came in, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said to him, We have found water!

34And when Esau was forty years old, he took to wife Judith, daughter of Beeri. the Hittite; and Basemath, daughter of Elon, the Hittite;

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Cross References

Genesis 21:31On this account, was the name of that place called Beer-sheba [="oath well"],—because there, had they two sworn.

Nehemiah 11:27and in Hazar-shual, and in Beer-sheba, and the hamlets 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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