“And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer–sheba unto this day.”
He called it Shibah, and to this day the city is called Beersheba. The renaming of Beersheba — shibah means oath or seven — connects to the original naming in Genesis 21:31. The city of covenant is confirmed again in the next generation. The application: the covenant places are renamed by the new generation's covenant acts. What Beersheba was for Abraham, Beersheba is also for Isaac.
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