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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine Judges 20:1

Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine in the Inheritance of Judah Joshua 15:20, 28

This is the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Judah. / Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine in the Inheritance of Judah 2 Samuel 24:7

They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Afterward Assigned to Simeon Joshua 19:2, 9

and included Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah, / The inheritance of the Simeonites was taken from the territory of Judah, because the share for Judah’s descendants was too large for them. So the Simeonites received an inheritance within Judah’s portion.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Afterward Assigned to Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:28

They lived in Beersheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Became a Seat of Idolatrous Worship Amos 5:5

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Became a Seat of Idolatrous Worship Amos 8:14

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria and say, ‘As surely as your god lives, O Dan,’ or, ‘As surely as the way of Beersheba lives’—they will fall, never to rise again.”

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Jacob Went out From, Toward Haran Genesis 28:10

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Named by Abraham, Who Lived There Genesis 21:31–33

So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath. / After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines. / And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Named by Abraham, Who Lived There Genesis 22:19

Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Sacrifices offered At, by Jacob Genesis 46:1

So Israel set out with all that he had, and when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: The Place where Isaac Lived Genesis 26:23

From there Isaac went up to Beersheba,

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Beer-Sheba: The Most Southern City of Palestine: Two Sons of Samuel Were Judges At 1 Samuel 8:2

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

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