Genesis 20:1
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Abraham and Sarah at Gerar
20 From there Abraham journeyed toward the region of the Negeb and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,(A)
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Genesis 26:6
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6 So Isaac settled in Gerar.
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Genesis 26:1
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Isaac and Abimelech
26 Now there was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that had occurred in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Gerar, to King Abimelech of the Philistines.(A)
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Psalm 29:8
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8 The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness;
the Lord shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.(A)
2 Chronicles 14:13-14
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13 Asa and the army with him pursued them as far as Gerar, and the Cushites fell until no one remained alive, for they were broken before the Lord and his army. The people of Judah[a] carried away a great quantity of spoil.(A) 14 They defeated all the cities around Gerar, for the fear of the Lord was on them. They plundered all the cities, for there was much plunder in them.(B)
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- 14.13 Heb They
Genesis 18:1
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A Son Promised to Abraham and Sarah
18 The Lord appeared to Abraham[a] by the oaks[b] of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance of his tent in the heat of the day.(A)
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1 Samuel 15:7
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7 Saul defeated the Amalekites, from Havilah as far as Shur, which is east of Egypt.(A)
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Deuteronomy 32:51
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51 because both of you broke faith with me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the wilderness of Zin, by failing to maintain my holiness among the Israelites.(A)
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Deuteronomy 1:19
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Israel’s Refusal to Enter the Land
19 “Then, just as the Lord our God had ordered us, we set out from Horeb and went through all that great and terrible wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, until we reached Kadesh-barnea.(A)
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Numbers 20:16
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16 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 town on the edge of your territory.(A)
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Numbers 13:26
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26 And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the Israelites 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.(A)
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Genesis 26:26
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26 Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his adviser and Phicol the commander of his army.(A)
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Genesis 26:20
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20 the herders of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herders, saying, “The water is ours.” So he called the well Esek,[a] because they contended with him.
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- 26.20 That is, contention
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