Negeb

All 36 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

Genesis

• Genesis 12:9

  And Abram journeyed on toward the Negev.

• Genesis 13:1

  So Abram went up out of Egypt into the Negev—he and his wife and all his possessions—and Lot was with him.

• Genesis 13:3

  From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,

• Genesis 20:1

  Now Abraham journeyed from there to the region of the Negev and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he was staying in Gerar,

• Genesis 24:62

  Now Isaac had just returned from Beer-lahai-roi, for he was living in the Negev.

Numbers

• Numbers 13:17

  When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.

• Numbers 13:22

  They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

• Numbers 13:29

  The Amalekites live in the land of the Negev; the Hittites, Jebusites, and Amorites live in the hill country; and the Canaanites live by the sea and along the Jordan.”

• Numbers 21:1

  When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.

• Numbers 33:40

  Now the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming.

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 1:7

  Resume your journey and go to the hill country of the Amorites; go to all the neighboring peoples in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the foothills, in the Negev, and along the seacoast to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great River Euphrates.

• Deuteronomy 34:3

  the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.

Joshua

• Joshua 10:40

  So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

• Joshua 11:16

  So Joshua took this entire region: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah, and the mountains of Israel and their foothills,

• Joshua 12:8

  the hill country, the foothills, the Arabah, the slopes, the wilderness, and the Negev—the lands of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites):

• Joshua 15:19

  “Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

• Joshua 19:8

  and all the villages surrounding these cities as far as Baalath-beer (Ramah of the Negev). This was the inheritance of the clans of the tribe of Simeon.

Judges

• Judges 1:9

  Afterward, the men of Judah marched down to fight against the Canaanites living in the hill country, in the Negev, and in the foothills.

• Judges 1:15

  “Give me a blessing,” she answered. “Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well.” So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.

• Judges 1:16

  Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 27:10

  who would ask him, “What have you raided today?” And David would reply, “The Negev of Judah,” or “The Negev of Jerahmeel,” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”

• 1 Samuel 30:1

  On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

• 1 Samuel 30:14

  We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

• 1 Samuel 30:27

  He sent gifts to those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 24:7

  They went toward the fortress of Tyre and all the cities of the Hivites and Canaanites. Finally, they went on to the Negev of Judah, to Beersheba.

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 28:18

  The Philistines had also raided the cities of the foothills and the Negev of Judah, capturing and occupying Beth-shemesh, Aijalon, and Gederoth, as well as Soco, Timnah, and Gimzo with their villages.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 21:1

  This is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.

• Isaiah 30:6

  This is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 13:19

  The cities of the Negev have been shut tight, and no one can open them. All Judah has been carried into exile, wholly taken captive.

• Jeremiah 17:26

  And people will come from the cities of Judah and the places around Jerusalem, from the land of Benjamin, and from the foothills, the hill country, and the Negev, bringing burnt offerings and sacrifices, grain offerings and frankincense, and thank offerings to the house of the LORD.

• Jeremiah 32:44

  Fields will be purchased with silver, and deeds will be signed, sealed, and witnessed in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah—the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev—because I will restore them from captivity, declares the LORD.”

• Jeremiah 33:13

  In the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 20:46

  “Son of man, set your face toward the south, preach against it, and prophesy against the forest of the Negev.

• Ezekiel 20:47

  Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.

Obadiah

• Obadiah 1:19

  Those from the Negev will possess the mountains of Esau; those from the foothills will possess the land of the Philistines. They will occupy the fields of Ephraim and Samaria, and Benjamin will possess Gilead.

• Obadiah 1:20

  And the exiles of this host of the Israelites will possess the land of the Canaanites as far as Zarephath; and the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad will possess the cities of the Negev.

Events the dataset sets at Negeb. Dates follow its Ussher–Jones reckoning (one of several traditional counts), not established history.

1. c. 1921 BC
   Abraham enters CanaanGenesis 11:31–12:9

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.