²¹ Then Jotham escaped and lived in Beer because he was afraid of his brother Abimelech.

¹⁶ From there the Israelites traveled to Beer,^[a] which is the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Assemble the people, and I will give them water.”

¹⁴ Meanwhile, Sheba traveled through all the tribes of Israel and eventually came to the town of Abel-beth-maacah. All the members of his own clan, the Bicrites,^[a] assembled for battle and followed him into the town.

This was the homeland allocated to the clans of the tribe of Simeon.