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Genesis 20:1

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from: Genesis 13:1, Genesis 18:1, Genesis 24:62

Kadesh: Genesis 14:7, Genesis 16:1, Genesis 16:7, Genesis 16:14; Numbers 13:26, Numbers 20:16; Deuteronomy 1:19, Deuteronomy 32:51; 1 Samuel 15:7; Psalms 29:8

Gerar: Gerar was a city of Arabia Petrea, under a king of the Philistines, 25 miles from Eleutheropolis beyond Daroma, in the south of Judah. From Genesis 10:19, it appears to have been situated in the angle where the south and west sides of Canaan met, and to have been not far from Gaza. Jerome, in his Hebrew Traditions on Genesis, says, from Gerar to Jerusalem was three days' journey. There was a wood near Gerar, spoken of by Theodoret; and a brook (Genesis 26:26), on which was a monastery, noticed by Sozomen. Genesis 10:19, Genesis 26:1, Genesis 26:6, Genesis 26:20, Genesis 26:26; 2 Chronicles 14:13-14

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