Beersheba is in the geographical merism found throughout the historical books of the Old Testament. A merism is a literary device by which two opposite extremes are named with the intention of communicating the whole. Beersheba appears frequently in the geographical merism “from Dan to Beersheba.” By listing the northernmost and southernmost cities of the Promised Land, the writer is creatively calling our attention to the entire land. Thus “from Dan to Beersheba” is the equivalent of all the land