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Beersheba

Where Beersheba sits on the map, and the 23 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.

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Identified with
Tel Beer Sheva
Coordinates
31.2447, 34.8408
Mentions
23 mentions

Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.

Passages where it appears

23 verses, in biblical order.

Joshua

  • Joshua 15:28

    and Hazar-shual and Beersheba and Biziothiah,

  • Joshua 19:2

    in the midst of the possession of the sons of Judah: Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,

Judges

  • Judges 20:1

    And so all the sons of Israel went out like one man, from Dan to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, and they gathered together, before the Lord, at Mizpah.

1 Samuel

  • 1 Samuel 3:20

    And all of Israel, from Dan even to Beersheba, knew Samuel to be a faithful prophet of the Lord.

  • 1 Samuel 8:2

    Now the name of his firstborn son was Joel, and the name of the second was Abijah: judges at Beersheba.

2 Samuel

  • 2 Samuel 3:10

    that the kingdom be transferred from the house of Saul, and that the throne of David be elevated over Israel and over Judah, from Dan to Beersheba.”

  • 2 Samuel 17:11

    But this seems to me to be the right counsel: Let all of Israel be gathered to you, from Dan to Beersheba, like the sand of the sea which is innumerable. And you will be in their midst.

  • 2 Samuel 24:2

    And the king said to Joab, the leader of his army, “Travel through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and number the people, so that I may know their number.”

  • 2 Samuel 24:7

    they passed near the walls of Tyre, and near all the land of the Hivite and the Canaanite. And they went into the south of Judah, to Beersheba.

  • 2 Samuel 24:15

    And the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel, from the morning until the appointed time. And there died of the people, from Dan to Beersheba, seventy thousand men.

1 Kings

  • 1 Kings 4:25

    And so, Judah and Israel were living without any fear, each one under his own vine and under his own fig tree, from Dan as far as Beersheba, during all the days of Solomon.

  • 1 Kings 19:3

    Therefore, Elijah was afraid. And rising up, he went away to wherever his will would carry him. And he arrived in Beersheba of Judah. And he dismissed his servant there.

2 Kings

  • 2 Kings 12:1

    In the seventh year of Jehu, Jehoash reigned. And he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zebiah from Beersheba.

  • 2 Kings 23:8

    And he gathered together all the priests from the cities of Judah. And he defiled the high places, where the priests were sacrificing, from Geba as far as Beersheba. And he tore down the altars of the gates at the entrance to the gate of Joshua, the leader of the city, which was to the left of the gate of the city.

1 Chronicles

  • 1 Chronicles 4:28

    Now they lived in Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual,

  • 1 Chronicles 21:2

    And David said to Joab and to the leaders of the people: “Go, and number Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan. And bring me the number, so that I may know it.”

2 Chronicles

  • 2 Chronicles 19:4

    Then Jehoshaphat lived in Jerusalem. And again he went out to the people, from Beersheba as far as mount Ephraim. And he called them back to the Lord, the God of their fathers.

  • 2 Chronicles 24:1

    Joash was seven years old when he had begun to reign. And he reigned for forty years in Jerusalem. The name of his mother was Zibiah, from Beersheba.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:5

    And they resolved that they would send messengers to all of Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, so that they might come and keep the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem. For many had not kept it, just as it was prescribed by the law.

Nehemiah

  • Nehemiah 11:27

    and at Hazarshual, and at Beersheba and in its daughter villages,

  • Nehemiah 11:30

    Zanoah, Adullam, and in their villages, at Lachish and its regions, and at Azekah and in its daughter villages. And they dwelt from Beersheba as far as the valley of Hinnom.

Amos

  • Amos 5:5

    But do not be willing to seek Bethel, and do not be willing to enter Gilgal, and you will not cross into Beer-sheba. For Gilgal will be led into captivity, and Bethel will be useless.

  • Amos 8:14

    They swear by the offense of Samaria, and they say, “As your God lives, Dan,” and “The way of Beer-sheba lives.” And they will fall, and they will not rise up any more.

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