“Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beersheba.”
Bible
“And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, / And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem, / And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, / And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah, / And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: / Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages: / And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.”
“And he went up from thence to Beersheba.”
“Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.”
“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.”
“And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.”
“And they dwelt at Beersheba, and Moladah, and Hazarshual, / And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad, / And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag, / And at Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusim, and at Bethbirei, and at Shaaraim. These were their cities unto the reign of David.”
