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Updated: June 20, 2025
John Rowlands and Dr. Clay Trumbull in the shelter of a block of mountains which rise to the south of the desert of Beer-sheba. The spring of clear and abundant water which gushes forth in their midst was the En-Mishpat "the spring where judgments were pronounced" of early times, and is still called 'Ain-Qadîs, "the spring of Kadesh."
And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.
They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say, Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and, The manner of Beer-sheba liveth; even they shall fall, and never rise up again. AMOS viii. 1-14. There are three visions in the former chapter, each beginning as verse 1.
"My parents," he reflected, "bade me go forth and sojourn outside of the land, but who knows whether it be the will of God that I do as they say, and beget children outside of the Holy Land?" Accordingly, he betook himself to Beer-sheba. There, where the Lord had given permission to Isaac to depart from Canaan and go to Philistia, he would learn the will of the Lord concerning himself.
At Beer-sheba Abraham planted a tamarisk, and "called on the name of the Lord, the everlasting God." Beer-sheba long remained one of the sacred places of Palestine. The tree planted by its well was a sign both of the water that flowed beneath its soil and of its sacred character.
When Abraham with Isaac returned to Beer-sheba, they sought for Sarah and could not find her, and when they made inquiries concerning her, they were told that she had gone as far as Hebron to seek them.
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. And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beer-sheba, and cry "It is all barren."
Abraham returned to Beer-sheba, and from thence went to Hebron, where Sarah died. Hebron or Kirjath-Arba as it was then called was occupied by a Hittite tribe, in contradistinction to the country round about it, which was in the possession of the Amorites.
First comes the altar, then the tent can be trustfully pitched, but 'except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it. And if the house is built in faith, a well will not be lacking; for they who 'seek first the kingdom of God' will have all needful 'things added unto them. 'And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran.
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