Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Genesis 21:32-34
"So they made a covenant at Beersheba: and Abimelech rose up, and Phicol the captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines. And Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Jehovah, the Everlasting God. And Abraham sojourned in the land of the Philistines many days.""And they returned into the land of the Philistines ..." Some would make this deny that Beersheba was also in the land of the Philistines, but the very fact of Abimelech's... read more
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Genesis 21:33
grove. Hebrew. 'eshel = trees, riot 'asherah ( App-42 ), but the wood for Genesis 22:3 about twenty years later. the everlasting GOD. This is the Divine definition of Jehovah (Lord), Hebrew. 'olam = duration, secret and hidden from man. Compare Psalms 90:2 . read more