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Abimelech, King of Gerar, returns Sarah to Abraham; painting by Elias van Nijmegen (1667-1755), Museum Rotterdam. Gerar (Hebrew: גְּרָר Gərār, "lodging-place") was a Philistine town and district in what is today south central Israel, mentioned in the Book of Genesis and in the Second Book of Chronicles of the Hebrew Bible.
Nahal Gerar, also Nachal Grar (Hebrew: נחל גרר) is a wadi in Israel, in the Negev desert. Its Arabic name is Wadi esh-Sheri'a (also Wady el Sharia and other variations). [ 1 ] Along this wadi, there are several important ancient Bronze Age archaeological sites.
Position of Tel Haror on the shore of Nahal Gerar river. Tel Haror (Hebrew name) or Tell Abu Hureyra [1] (Arabic name; also spelled Hureira and Hareira), also known as Tel Heror, [citation needed] is an archaeological site in the western Negev Desert, Israel, [1] northwest of Beersheba, about 20 km east of the Mediterranean Sea, [citation needed] situated on the north bank of Wadi Gerar, [1] a ...
(1) According to the Book of Genesis, already Abraham lived for a while in the central and biblical Negev after being banished from Egypt. [12] Notably, he spent a brief period living in Kadesh [Barnea] [13] and later resided as a guest in Beersheba, which at that time was purportedly part of the kingdom of the Philistine king of Gerar.
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Rehoboth by the river was an ancient city from which came the Edomite king Saul in Genesis 36:37; 1 Chronicles 1:48). Since "the River" in the Bible generally is used to mean the Euphrates, scholars have suggested either of two sites near the junction of the Khabur River and the Euphrates. However, this would be a place far outside the Edomite ...
Lincoln University (California), a private university in Oakland; Lincoln University (Missouri), a public, historically black, land-grant university in Jefferson City; Lincoln University (Pennsylvania), a public, historically black university near Oxford; Lincoln Memorial University, a private university in Harrogate, Tennessee
The city is called 'Chellous' (Χελλοὺς) in the Greek text of Judith, i, 9 (see Jdt 1:9 in NABRE), a work probably dating to the 1st century BCE.It is also mentioned in the 2nd century CE by Ptolemy, [3] Peutinger's Table, Stephanus Byzantius (fl. 6th century; as being formerly in the province of Arabia Petraea, but "now" in Palaestina Tertia), Jerome (c. 342–47 – 420), [4] the ...