Genesis 21:32
So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
31Wherefore he called that place Beer-sheba; because there they sware both of them.
Cross References
Genesis 10:14and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim.
Genesis 21:27And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.
Genesis 26:14and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him.
Exodus 13:17And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:
1 Samuel 18:3Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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 →