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So Abraham rose early in the morning, and took bread and a skin of water; and putting it on her shoulder, he gave it and the boy to Hagar, and sent her away. Then she departed and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.

Therefore he called that place Beersheba, [fn] because the two of them swore an oath there.

Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba. So Abimelech rose with Phichol, the commander of his army, and they returned to the land of the Philistines.

Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there called on the name of the LORD, the Everlasting God.

So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

Then he went up from there to Beersheba.

So he called it Shebah. [fn] Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba [fn] to this day.

Now Jacob went out from Beersheba and went toward Haran.

Exodus 6:14-25">[xr] So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

Then Jacob arose from Beersheba; and the sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones, and their wives, in the carts which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Hazar Shual, Beersheba, Bizjothjah,

They had in their inheritance Beersheba (Sheba), Moladah,

So all the children of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the LORD.

The name of his firstborn was Joel, and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beersheba.

to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba."

Therefore I advise that all Israel be fully gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand that is by the sea for multitude, and that you go to battle in person.

So the king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, "Now go throughout all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people."

and they came to the stronghold of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. Then they went out to South Judah as far as Beersheba.

So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from the morning till the appointed time. From Dan to Beersheba seventy thousand men of the people died.