Beer-lahai-roi


AKA Be'er Lachai Ro'i

A well between Kadesh and Bered. (Genesis 16:14)

The Lord sees Hagar

Hagar fled to the wilderness from her harsh mistress Sarai when pregnant with Ishmael. The angel of the Lord saw her there by a spring of water on the way to Shur and blessed her. In response, she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, “You are a God of seeing,” for she said, “Truly here I have seen him who looks after me.”

The well was called Beer-lahai-roi, and it lies between Kadesh and Bered.

(Genesis 16)

Isaac meets his wife, Rebekah, after returning from Beer-lahai-roi

Abraham insisted upon a wife for Isaac being found among his father's house and in the land of his kindred, not among the Canaanites. She must come to live in the land promised to his offspring. He had his servant swear to this mission, and he found Rebekah for Isaac in the city of Nahor in Mesopotamia.

Isaac had returned from Beer-lahai-roi and was dwelling in the Negeb. Isaac went out to meditate in the field toward evening when he saw camels were coming. Abraham's servant told Isaac all the things he had done. Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

(Genesis 24)

Isaac settles here

After the death of Abraham, God blessed Isaac his son, and Isaac settled at Beer-lahai-roi.

(Genesis 25:11)