Beer in the Bible

Meaning: a well

Thematic Bible



From there [they went] to Beer, the well the Lord told Moses about, "Gather the people so I may give them water." Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, well-sing to it! The princes dug the well; The nobles of the people hollowed it out with a scepter and with their staffs. [They went] from the wilderness to Mattanah,


Then Jotham fled, escaping to Beer, and lived there because of his brother Abimelech.


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