So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Abimelech rose up with Phicol, the captain of his army, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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Thus they made a covenant at Beer-sheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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So they made a covenant at Beer-sheba; and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
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- Genesis 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (which the Philistines descended from), and Caphtorim.
- Genesis 14:13 One who had escaped came and told Abram, the Hebrew. At that time, he lived by the oaks of Mamre, the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner. They were allies of Abram.
- Genesis 21:27 Abraham took sheep and cattle, and gave them to Abimelech. Those two made a covenant.
- Genesis 26:8 When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah, his wife.
- Genesis 26:14 He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
- Genesis 31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
- Exodus 13:17 When Pharaoh had let the people go, God didn’t lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and they return to Egypt”;
- Judges 13:1 The children of Israel again did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
- 1 Samuel 18:3 Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Thus we see that the godly, as touching outward…
Thus we see that the godly, as touching outward things may make peace with the wicked that know not the true God.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Gen 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba:…
Gen 21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.
Ver. 32. A covenant.] Foedus , παρα το πεποιθεναι {a}
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{a} Sic fidus , παρα το πειθειν
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain 1891 i.e. Into their part of that land, to…
1891 i.e. Into their part of that land, to wit, Gerar, which was not far from this place. It is a usual synecdoche, whereby the whole land is put for a part of it; otherwise they were at this time in that land.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 32. Returned into the land of the Philistines —…
32. Returned into the land of the Philistines — That is, into its more central part. The limits of the territory claimed by them was probably in that age ill-defined and variable, and their chief cities much farther to the south than the later pentapolis of the Mediterranean plain. Beer-sheba appears, from Gen_21:34, to have been on the border of the Philistine territory, in which the patriarchs long sojourned.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 32. returned into the land of the Philistines] The…
32. returned into the land of the Philistines] The reference to the Philistines is an anachronism. It is doubtful whether the Philistines occupied S. E. Palestine before the reign of Raamses III (1202–1172 b.c.). See Gen_26:1.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:32 The Philistines in Genesis are different from the…
21:32 The Philistines in Genesis are different from the Philistines of Judges through Kings. The earlier Philistines had Semitic names (e.g., Abimelech) and Canaanite culture. The later Philistines were apparently of Greek origin, with Greek customs and culture. They seem to have arrived in Canaan by sea from the Aegean area around 1200 BC, during the time of the judges. Probably the name of the later Philistines was used here simply to describe the region’s earlier inhabitants.
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