Genesis 21:33
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33 Abraham[a] planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba and there called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.[b](A)
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1 Timothy 1:17
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17 To the King of the ages, immortal, invisible,[a] the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever.[b] Amen.(A)
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Isaiah 40:28
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28 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.(A)
Psalm 90:2
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2 Before the mountains were brought forth
or ever you had formed the earth and the world,
from everlasting to everlasting you are God.(A)
Jeremiah 10:10
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10 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.[a](A)
Romans 16:26
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26 but is now disclosed and through the prophetic writings is made known to all the gentiles, according to the command of the eternal God, to bring about the obedience of faith(A)—
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Genesis 12:8
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8 From there he moved on 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 invoked the name of the Lord.(A)
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Genesis 4:26
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26 To Seth also a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the name of the Lord.(A)
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Deuteronomy 33:27
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27 He subdues the ancient gods,[a]
shatters[b] the forces of old;[c]
he drove out the enemy before you
and said, ‘Destroy!’(A)
Romans 1:20
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20 Ever since the creation of the world God’s eternal power and divine nature, invisible though they are, have been seen and understood through the things God has made. So they are without excuse,(A)
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Amos 8:14
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14 Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria
and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,”
and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”—
they shall fall and never rise again.(A)
Isaiah 57:15
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15 For thus says the high and lofty one
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
and to revive the heart of the contrite.(A)
Judges 3:7
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Othniel
7 The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, forgetting the Lord their God and serving the Baals and the Asherahs.(A)
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Deuteronomy 16:21
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Forbidden Forms of Worship
21 “You shall not plant any tree as a sacred pole[a] beside the altar that you make for the Lord your God,(A)
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Genesis 26:33
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33 He called it Shibah;[a] therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba[b] to this day.(A)
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Genesis 26:25
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25 So he built an altar there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.(A)
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Genesis 26:23
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23 From there he went up to Beer-sheba.
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