Thematic Bible: The most southern city of palestine


Thematic Bible



This was the inheritance of the tribe of the descendants of Judah by their clans.

Hazar-shual, Beer-sheba, Biziothiah,

They went to the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Afterward, they went to the Negev of Judah at Beer-sheba.


Their inheritance included:

Beer-sheba (or Sheba), Moladah,

The inheritance of Simeon’s descendants was within the territory of Judah’s descendants, because the share for Judah’s descendants was too large for them. So Simeon’s descendants received an inheritance within Judah’s portion.

They lived in Beer-sheba, Moladah, Hazar-shual,


Therefore that place was called Beer-sheba because it was there that the two of them swore an oath. After they had made a covenant at Beer-sheba, Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, left and returned to the land of the Philistines. Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he worshiped the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.


Do not seek Bethel
or go to Gilgal
or journey to Beer-sheba,
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.

Those who swear by the guilt of Samaria
and say, “As your god lives, Dan,”
or “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”
they will fall, never to rise again.


Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.


From there he went up to Beer-sheba,


Israel set out with all that he had and came to Beer-sheba, and he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.


His firstborn son’s name was Joel and his second was Abijah. They were judges in Beer-sheba.


All the Israelites from Dan to Beer-sheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the community assembled as one body before the Lord at Mizpah.


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