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Tag: Beersheba

  • City Gates: Their Importance and Biblical Meaning

    Dennis

    In Old Testament times (but not always in New Testament times), the Gates of a walled city were constructed with two rooms on each side of the entrance passageway. Benches lined the walls of the rooms. It was here that the “elders” or rulers of the city would sit. It was in the gates where… Read more

  • Abraham at Beersheba

    Dennis

    Beersheba (also spelt Beersheva, and Be’er Sheva) is Hebrew, meaning either “Well of the Oath”, or “Well of the Seven”. Both possible meanings refers to the Biblical story recounted in Genesis 21:25-33: “And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech’s servants had violently taken away. And Abimelech said, I wot not… Read more