²²At that time Abimelek^g and Phicol the commander of his forces^h said to Abraham, “God is with you in everything you do.ⁱ ²³Now swear^j to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants.^k Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.”^l

²⁴Abraham said, “I swear it.”

²⁵Then Abraham complained to Abimelek about a well of water that Abimelek’s servants had seized.^m ²⁶But Abimelek said, “I don’t know who has done this. You did not tell me, and I heard about it only today.”

²⁷So Abraham brought sheep and cattle and gave them to Abimelek, and the two men made a treaty.ⁿ ²⁸Abraham set apart seven ewe lambs from the flock, ²⁹and Abimelek asked Abraham, “What is the meaning of these seven ewe lambs you have set apart by themselves?”

³⁰He replied, “Accept these seven lambs from my hand as a witness^o that I dug this well.^p”

³¹So that place was called Beersheba,^d^q because the two men swore an oath^r there.

³²After the treaty^s had been made at Beersheba,^t Abimelek and Phicol the commander of his forces^u returned to the land of the Philistines.^v ³³Abraham planted a tamarisk tree^w in Beersheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord,^x the Eternal God.^y

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Footnotes

dBeersheba can mean well of seven and well of the oath.

Cross references

gSee Ge 20:2
hver 32; Ge 26:26
iver 23; Ge 26:28; 28:15; 31:3, 5, 42; 39:2, 3; 1 Sa 3:19; 16:18; 2 Ch 1:1; Ps 46:7; Isa 7:14; 8:8, 10; 41:10; 43:5
jver 31; Ge 25:33; 26:31; 31:53; Jos 2:12; 1 Ki 2:8
k 1 Sa 24:21
lSee ver 22; Jos 2:12
m Ge 26:15, 18, 20–22
nver 31, 32; Ge 26:28, 31; 31:44, 53
o Ge 31:44, 47, 48, 50, 52; Jos 22:27, 28, 34; 24:27; Isa 19:20; Mal 2:14
pver 25; Ge 26:25, 32
qSee ver 14
rSee ver 23, See 27
sSee ver 27
tSee ver 14
uSee ver 22
vSee Ge 10:14
w 1 Sa 22:6; 31:13
xSee Ge 4:26
y Ex 15:18; Dt 32:40; 33:27; Job 36:26; Ps 10:16; 45:6; 90:2; 93:2; 102:24; 103:19; 146:10; Isa 40:28; Jer 10:10; Hab 1:12; 3:6; Heb 13:8