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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.

Bela (Man living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness)

Two things go by this name in these verses. Bela, also called Zoar, was the one city of the plain spared, kept so Lot had somewhere near to run. The name also belongs to Benjamin's firstborn son.

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First, in plain English

Two things go by this name in these verses. Bela, also called Zoar, was the one city of the plain spared, kept so Lot had somewhere near to run. The name also belongs to Benjamin's firstborn son.

Who this is

Bela, also called Zoar, was the only one of the five cities of the plain spared destruction, preserved at Lot's plea so he would have somewhere nearby to flee. The same name belongs to Benjamin's firstborn son, to an early king of Edom listed in Genesis and Chronicles, and to a descendant of Reuben.

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The word

H1106

Where it appears
  • Genesis 14:2
  • Genesis 14:8
  • Genesis 46:21
  • Numbers 26:38
  • Numbers 26:40
  • 1 Chronicles 7:6
  • 1 Chronicles 7:7
  • 1 Chronicles 8:1
  • 1 Chronicles 8:3

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