Verse 32
Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba ,.... Which took its name from the oath annexed to the covenant there made; and which is observed for the sake of what follows, to show that when they finished their agreement, and the ceremony of it:
then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol, the chief captain of his host ; from the place where they had been conversing and covenanting with Abraham:
and they returned into the land of the Philistines ; from Beersheba, which was in the extreme border of it, unto Gerar, which lay in the midst of it, and was the capital city in it; otherwise both places were in Palestine, or the land of the Philistines, a people that came out of Egypt originally, and settled here: in Jerom's F21 De loc. Heb. fol. 89. F. time Beersheba was a large village, twenty miles from Hebron to the south.
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