Beer

• Numbers 21:16 says, “From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, ‘Gather the people together, and I will give them water.’” At 21:17–18 Israel sings of the well.
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  • NUM 21:16–20, engwebp

    ¹⁶From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

    ¹⁷Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, well! Sing to it,

    ¹⁸the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

    ¹⁹and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

    ²⁰and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

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• Judges 9:21 says, “Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.” Before that, at 9:7, Jotham went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and cried out to the men of Shechem.
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  • JDG 9:7–15, engwebp

    ⁷When they told it to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and lifted up his voice, cried out, and said to them, “Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you.

    ⁸The trees set out to anoint a king over themselves. They said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us.’

    ⁹“But the olive tree said to them, ‘Should I stop producing my oil, with which they honor God and man by me, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

    ¹⁰“The trees said to the fig tree, ‘Come and reign over us.’

    ¹¹“But the fig tree said to them, ‘Should I leave my sweetness, and my good fruit, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

    ¹²“The trees said to the vine, ‘Come and reign over us.’

    ¹³“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

    ¹⁴“Then all the trees said to the bramble, ‘Come and reign over us.’

    ¹⁵“The bramble said to the trees, ‘If in truth you anoint me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour the cedars of Lebanon.’

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  • JDG 9:16–21, engwebp

    ¹⁶“Now therefore, if you have dealt truly and righteously, in that you have made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him according to the deserving of his hands

    ¹⁷(for my father fought for you, risked his life, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian;

    ¹⁸and you have risen up against my father’s house today and have slain his sons, seventy persons, on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his female servant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother);

    ¹⁹if you then have dealt truly and righteously with Jerubbaal and with his house today, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you;

    ²⁰but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech and devour the men of Shechem and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem and from the house of Millo and devour Abimelech.”

    ²¹Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.

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Both books name Beer. Numbers 21:16 calls Beer the well of which the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water,” and Judges 9:21 has Jotham flee to Beer for fear of Abimelech his brother. Judges does not say where its Beer is, and the text does not say the two are one place. This collection records both under one entry, because the name is the same and the text does not place them apart, and does not decide whether they are the same place.