Beer-sheba

Gen. 21: 14 – 15 relates that Hagar wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba, and when the water was gone, she left Ishmael under one of the bushes [sihim], which the Rabbis identify as a broom brush, which is a desert plant.

Hagar: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. —

The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away; and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.

The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

There was no desert of Beer-sheba; this name was not known until long after; but this is a mere trifle; the foundation of the story is not the less authentic.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

And they rose up, and went together to Beer-sheba.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

Calvin seems, however, to allude to a notion not uncommon among learned men, that as oaths were often made before seven witnesses, which perhaps the seven lambs represented, Abraham might have this number as well as the oath in his mind, when he called the well Beer-sheba.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

Beer-sheba, the ancient dwelling-place of his fathers.

Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

And one might, indeed, almost see some footsteps of that exclusion under the first Temple, in that very common expression, "From Dan even to Beer-sheba."

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

About three or four in the afternoon they came to a ruinous town called 'Beere,' of old (as was reported to them) 'Beer-sheba,' a great city [but more probably 'Beeroth,' mentioned Joshua 18: 25].

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

Doubtless Abraham imparted of his wealth to his first-born; and as Abraham often sojourned afterwards in Beer-sheba, probably not far from the spot where Hagar and

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