Genesis 4:26
A.M. 235. B.C. 3769. To him.6-8Enos. Heb. Enosh.to call upon the name of the Lord. or, call themselves by the name of the Lord. De 26:17,18; 1Ki 18:24; Ps 116:17; Isa 44:5; 48:1; 63:19; Jer 33:16Joe 2:32; Zep 3:9; Ac 2:21; 11:26; Ro 10:13; 1Co 1:2; Eph 3:14,15Genesis 12:8
of Beth-el.28:19; 35:3,15,16; Jos 8:17; 18:22; Ne 11:31Hai.Jos 7:2; 8:3Ai.Ne 11:31Aija.Isa 10:28Aiath. called.4:26; 13:4; 21:33; Ps 116:4; Joe 2:32; Ac 2:21; Ro 10:12-14; 1Co 1:2Genesis 26:23
Beer-sheba.21:31; 46:1; Jud 20:1Genesis 26:25
builded.8:20; 12:7; 13:18; 22:9; 33:20; 35:1; Ex 17:15called.Ps 116:17Genesis 26:33
Shebah. i.e., an oath. therefore.21:31Beer-sheba. i.e., the well of the oath.28This may have been the same city which was called Beer-sheba a hundred years before this, in the time of Abraham; but as the well, from which it had its name originally, was closed up by the Philistines, the name of the place might have been abolished with the well; when, therefore, Isaac re-opened it, he restored the ancient name of the place.
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