Beer in the Bible

Meaning: a well

Exact Match

namely, to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and to establish the throne of David over Israel and over Judah all the way from Dan to Beer Sheba!"

Verse ConceptsSaul And David

My advice therefore is this: Let all Israel from Dan to Beer Sheba -- in number like the sand by the sea! -- be mustered to you, and you lead them personally into battle.

Verse ConceptsSandAssembling IsraelActing For OneselfMany In Israel

And the king said to Joab the captain of the host, who was with him, Go, I pray thee, through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, and count the people, that I may know the number of the people.

Verse ConceptsCensus

and they came to the fortified city of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites and of the Canaanites; and went out to the south of Judah, to Beer-sheba.

Verse ConceptsFortresses

Eventually they proceeded to Beer-sheba in the Judean Negev. After they had traveled throughout the entire land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days.

Verse ConceptsFive Months And More

And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men.

Verse ConceptsPestilenceFifty To Ninety ThousandDeath As Punishment

Thematic Bible



From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water. Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it: The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:


Then Jotham straight away went in flight to Beer, and was living there for fear of his brother Abimelech.


Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain