The name Beersheba first comes up in the Bible in the book of Genesis 21:22-34. There, Abraham said to Abimelech “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.
After they had made the covenant at Beersheba, Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army got up and returned to the land of the Philistines”.
The oath was important because Abimelech's men had taken the well from Abraham after he had previously dug it so Abraham brought sheep and cattle to Abimelech to get the well back. He set aside seven lambs to swear that it was he that had dug the well and no one else.
God promised Abraham in Genesis 17 & 18 that:
He will be the father of many nations
God will give him the land in which he was a foreigner. God will give the whole land of Canaan to his family forever, and He will be their God.
He and Sarah will have a son. His name will be Isaac and God will make an everlasting promise to him and his descendants.
In Genesis 21:1-4, God then fulfilled His promises –
1. The Lord was good to Sarah and kept His promise.
2 Although Abraham was very old, Sarah had a son exactly at the time God had said.
3 Abraham named his son Isaac
4 and when the boy was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, just as the Lord had commanded.
God is a Promise-keeper. He is able & capable to fulfill His promises that He has made for you, in Jesus Name. Amen
You will have good success this 2018.
Remain blessed.
Shalom
Amen
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