When Achish would ask, “Where ¹  did you raid today?” David would say, “The Negev of Judah” or “The Negev of Jeharmeel” or “The Negev of the Kenites.”

Their southern border started at the southern tip of the Salt Sea, ¹ 

Abram continually journeyed by stages ¹  down to the Negev. ² 

Obed-Edom was assigned the south gate, and his sons were assigned the storehouses.

O Lord, restore our well-being, just as the streams in the arid south are replenished. ¹ 

your southern border ¹  will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent, ¹  continue to Zin, and then its direction ²  will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

extended ¹  south of the Scorpion Ascent, ²  crossed to Zin, went up from the south to Kadesh Barnea, crossed to Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka.

We conducted a raid on the Negev of the Kerethites, on the area of Judah, and on the Negev of Caleb. We burned Ziklag.” ¹ 

On the south side it will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, the river, ¹  to the Great Sea. This is the south side.

The gatekeepers were posted on all four sides – east, west, north, and south.

He put “The Sea” on the south side, in the southeast corner.

Then the king of the north ¹  will advance against the empire of the king of the south, but will withdraw to his own land.

At an appointed time he will again invade the south, but this latter visit will not turn out the way the former one did.

So Abram went up from Egypt into the Negev. ¹  He took his wife and all his possessions with him, as well as Lot. ² 

Abraham journeyed from there to the Negev ¹  region and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While he lived as a temporary resident ²  in Gerar,

Now ¹  Isaac came from ²  Beer Lahai Roi, ³  for ⁴  he was living in the Negev. ⁵ 

So you are to make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side, ¹ 

So he made frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side.

He made the courtyard. For the south side ¹  the hangings of the courtyard were of fine twisted linen, one hundred fifty feet long,