Gen 21:32 | NETfull | STEP | So they made a treaty at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned to the land of the Philistines.

Genesis 21:32

32 So they made a treaty ^{▼▼ Heb “cut a covenant.”} at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned ^{▼▼ Heb “arose and returned.”} to the land of the Philistines. ^{▼▼ The Philistines mentioned here may not be ethnically related to those who lived in Palestine in the time of the judges and the united monarchy. See D. M. Howard, “Philistines,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 238.}