Beer in the Bible

Meaning: a well

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And they abode at Beer-sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar-Shual,

And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.

So David said to Joab and the commanders of the troops, “Go and count Israel from Beer-sheba to Dan and bring a report to me so I can know their number.”

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And from there they traveled to Beer; that is the well where the Lord spoke to Moses, "Gather the people and I will give them water." Then Israel sang this song: "Spring up, O well, sing to it! The well which the princes dug, which the leaders of the people opened with their scepters and their staffs." And from the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;


Then Jotham ran away to Beer and lived there to escape from Abimelech his half-brother.


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