21:32 So they made a treaty 1 at Beer Sheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, returned 2 to the land of the Philistines. 3
46:1 So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. 4 When he came to Beer Sheba 5 he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
1 tn Heb “cut a covenant.”
2 tn Heb “arose and returned.”
3 sn The Philistines mentioned here may not be ethnically related to those who lived in Palestine in the time of the judges and the united monarchy. See D. M. Howard, “Philistines,” Peoples of the Old Testament World, 238.
4 tn Heb “and Israel journeyed, and all that was his.”
5 sn Beer Sheba. See Gen 21:31; 28:10.