Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
General references
The philistines
Bible References
General references
Genesis 21:27
Abraham took some sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelech. The two of them made a treaty.
Genesis 14:13
A fugitive came and told Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, the brother of Eshcol and Aner. (All these were allied by treaty with Abram.)
Genesis 31:53
May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us." Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared.
1 Samuel 18:3
Jonathan made a covenant with David, for he loved him as much as he did his own life.
The philistines
Genesis 10:14
Pathrusites, Casluhites (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorites.
Genesis 26:8
After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Exodus 13:17
When Pharaoh released the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, although that was nearby, for God said, "Lest the people change their minds and return to Egypt when they experience war."
Judges 13:1
The Israelites again did evil in the Lord's sight, so the Lord handed them over to the Philistines for forty years.