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Then Abram traveled on, still going toward the Negev.

So Abram left Egypt and went to the Negev, with his wife and all that belonged to him. And Lot went with him.

He traveled from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Abraham traveled from there to the land of the Negev, and made his home between Kadesh and Shur. Then he lived for a time in Gerar.

Now Isaac had come from Beerlahairoi, and was living in the Negev.

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan. He said to them, "Go up there into the Negev. Then go up into the hill country.

When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron. Anak's sons Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai were there. (Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Amalek is living in the land of the Negev. The Hittites and Jebusites and Amorites are living in the hill country. And the Canaanites are living by the sea and by the side of the Jordan."

The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them against their will.

The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

Get ready to travel now. Go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the valley, in the Negev and by the sea, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the big river, the river Euphrates.

the Negev and the plain in the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.

So Joshua won the war against the whole land, the hill country, the Negev, the valleys, the hill-sides, and all their kings. He left no one alive. He destroyed all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had told him.

So Joshua took all that land. He took the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the valleys, the Arabah, the hill country of Israel and its valleys.

He gave them the hill country, the valleys, the Arabah, the hill-sides, the desert, and the Negev. It was the land of the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.)

Achsah answered, "Give me a gift. You have given me the land of the Negev. Give me wells of water also." So Caleb gave her the wells in the high-land and in the valley.

And they had all the towns around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, also known as Ramah of the Negev. This was the land given to the families of the people of Simeon.

After this the men of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, in the Negev and in the plains.

She said to him, "Give me a special gift. You have given me the land of the Negev. Give me the wells of water also." So Caleb gave her the wells in the high land and in the valley.

Achish said, "Where have you gone to battle today?" And David said, "Against the Negev of Judah, the Negev of the Jerahmeelites, and the Negev of the Kenites."