Negev
Negev appears in 43 verses of the Bible, from Genesis to Obadiah.
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- Near Tel Beer Sheva, 70 km southwest of Jerusalem
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Key passages
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Then Abram continued traveling south by stages toward the Negev.
Genesis 12:9 · Read the chapter -
Moses gave the men these instructions as he sent them out to explore the land: “Go north through the Negev into the hill country.
Numbers 13:17 · Read the chapter -
It is time to break camp and move on. Go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the neighboring regions—the Jordan Valley, the hill country, the western foothills, the Negev, and the coastal plain. Go to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, and all the way to the great Euphrates River.
Deuteronomy 1:7 · Read the chapter -
from the Negev wilderness in the south to the Lebanon mountains in the north, from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the land of the Hittites.’
Joshua 1:4 · Read the chapter -
Then they went down to fight the Canaanites living in the hill country, the Negev, and the western foothills.
Judges 1:9 · Read the chapter -
“Where did you make your raid today?” Achish would ask. And David would reply, “Against the south of Judah, the Jerahmeelites, and the Kenites.”
1 Samuel 27:10 · Read the chapter
Every verse (43)
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