From there Abraham journeyed toward the territory of the Negeb and lived between Kadesh and Shur; and he sojourned in Gerar.
So Isaac settled in Gerar.
Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar to Abimelech king of the Philistines.
The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Ethiopians fell until none remained alive, for they were broken before the Lord and his army. The men of Judah carried away very much spoil. And they attacked all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the Lord was upon them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.
And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day.
because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.
“Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And we came to Kadesh-barnea.
And when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.
And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army,
the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
Now Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb.
So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb.
And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
And Saul defeated the Amalekites from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.
Therefore the well was called Beer-lahai-roi; it lies between Kadesh and Bered.
The angel of the Lord found her by a spring of water in the wilderness, the spring on the way to Shur.
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had borne him no children. She had a female Egyptian servant whose name was Hagar.
Then they turned back and came to En-mishpat (that is, Kadesh) and defeated all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who were dwelling in Hazazon-tamar.
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