Where is beersheba in the bible

The top layer of excavations at Beersheba shows it as it was in the 8th century BC. This is the city Elijah saw when he fled from the wrath of Jezebel, after the murder of her priests of Baal.

When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there. I Kings It was a remarkable city, laid out in separate quarters with orderly streets following the inside of the city wall and a main street through the town center.

All these streets met in a square inside the main city gate — obviously the main meeting place. There was. A model of the ancient city of Beersheba, with palace, warehouses, and houses of officials and servants.

It was an administrative center for the country, and a bolt-hole during invasion. Aerial view of Beersheba excavations. You would enter each house by a narrow wooden door. This was the only part of the house that opened onto the street. Most of the houses in Beersheba had four sections, one of which was a courtyard — see Houses in Bible Lands for floor-plans and drawings.

The rooms would have seemed very small to us, even claustrophobic — rooms could only be as wide as the beams that supported the roof, and large beams were hard to get, and expensive.

The rooms were also stuffy, since there was a minimum of windows. There was of course no glass in the windows: lattice work and shutters covered the openings.

Stairs or a wooden ladder led up onto a flat roof , which was used as an outdoor room partly shaded by woven matting — think of Bathsheba bathing on her roof when King David saw her …. This space and the courtyard were the main work areas , since they were the only well-lit and airy places. Tasks performed here included. The houses was crowded with people at all times of the day and night. There was virtually no privacy — anything a person did, no matter how intimate, was done in the presence of others.

What other gods do you worship? Youthful looks? Your job? A perfect body? Samuel was disappointed in his two sons — read the text from I Samuel They turned aside after dishonest gain and accepted bribes and perverted justice. The saying "from Dan to Beersheba" is used several times in the Bible to encompass the northern border of Israel, to the southern border of Judah the complete nation. Beersheba was resettled after the return from Babylon, and later became part of Idumea.

Excavations found six Israelite fortified towns and a Roman fortress. Toggle navigation aboutbibleprophecy. Home About Contact Site map. And his mother's name [was] Zibiah of Beersheba. And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba, and brake down the high places of the gates that [were] in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which [were] on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.

And David said to Joab and to the rulers of the people, Go, number Israel from Beersheba even to Dan; and bring the number of them to me, that I may know [it].

Joash [was] seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also [was] Zibiah of Beersheba. So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done [it] of a long [time in such sort] as it was written.

Zanoah, Adullam, and [in] their villages, at Lachish, and the fields thereof, at Azekah, and [in] the villages thereof. And they dwelt from Beersheba unto the valley of Hinnom. But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.