Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes.
But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
One day Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers a
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
The king asked the Cushite, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And the Cushite replied, “May the enemies of my lord t
Their blood will come back upon the heads of Joab and his descendants forever; but for David, his descendants, his house
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled.
“I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”
Seek the prosperity of the city to which I have sent you as exiles. Pray to the LORD on its behalf, for if it prospers,
“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.