Beersheba
Where Beersheba sits on the map, and the 10 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Tel Beer Sheva
- Coordinates
- 31.2447, 34.8408
- Mentions
- 10 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
10 verses, in biblical order.
Genesis
- Genesis 21:14
And so Abraham arose in the morning, and taking bread and a skin of water, he placed it upon her shoulder, and he handed over the boy, and he released her. And when she had departed, she wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 21:31
For this reason, that place was called Beersheba, because there both of them did swear.
- Genesis 21:32
And they initiated a pact on behalf of the well of oath.
- Genesis 21:33
Then Abimelech and Phicol, the leader of his army, rose up, and they returned to the land of the Palestinians. In truth, Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the Lord God Eternal.
- Genesis 22:19
Abraham returned to his servants, and they went to Beersheba together, and he lived there.
- Genesis 26:23
Then he ascended from that place into Beersheba,
- Genesis 26:33
Therefore, he called it, ‘Abundance.’ And the name of the city was established as ‘Beersheba,’ even to the present day.
- Genesis 28:10
Meanwhile Jacob, having departed from Beersheba, continued on to Haran.
- Genesis 46:1
And Israel, setting out with all that he had, arrived at the Well of the Oath. And sacrificing victims there to the God of his father Isaac,
- Genesis 46:5
Then Jacob rose up from the Well of the Oath. And his sons took him, with their little ones and wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry the old man,
Routes that pass through here
Tabor itineraries with a stop at this place.