Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.
But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and the everlasting King. At his wrath the earth quakes, and the nations cannot endure his indignation.
To Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord.
but has now been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith—
From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, ‘Destroy.’
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.
Those who swear by the Guilt of Samaria, and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’ and, ‘As the Way of Beersheba lives,’ they shall fall, and never rise again.”
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. They forgot the Lord their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
“You shall not plant any tree as an Asherah beside the altar of the Lord your God that you shall make.
He called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.
So he built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.
From there he went up to Beersheba.
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