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So Abraham got up early in the morning. He took bread and a leather bag of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder. He gave her the boy, and sent her away. She left, and went from place to place in the desert in Beersheba.

So he gave that place the name Beersheba because both of them made a promise there.

So they made an agreement at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the head of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

Abraham planted a tree at Beersheba. He called there on the name of the Lord, the God Who lives forever.

So Abraham returned to his young men. And they got up and went with him to Beersheba. Abraham made his home there.

Then he went from there to Beersheba.

So he gave the well the name Shibah. So the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

Jacob left Beersheba and went toward Haran.

So Israel traveled with all he had to Beersheba. There he gave gifts to the God of his father Isaac.

Then Jacob left Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried their father Jacob, their little ones and their wives in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

They had in their land the cities of Beersheba, Sheba, Moladah,

Then all the people of Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out. The people gathered together as one man to the Lord at Mizpah.

All Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel had become a man of God.

The name of his first-born son was Joel. And the name of his second son was Abijah. They were men who judged in Beersheba.

He has promised to build the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba."

But I say that all Israel should be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, as much as the sand by the sea. And you yourself should go into battle.

So the king said to Joab the captain of the army who was with him, "Go through all the families of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba. Number the people, so I may know how many there are."

They came to the strong place of Tyre and to all the cities of the Hivites and the Canaanites. And they went out to the south of Judah, to Beersheba.

So the Lord sent a disease upon Israel from the morning until the time given. And 70,000 men died, from Dan to Beersheba.

So Judah and Israel were safe. Every man was safe under his vine and fig tree, from Dan to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.