¹⁴ Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar.^(A) He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.^(B)

²⁰ And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba^(A) recognized that Samuel was attested as a prophet of the Lord.^(B)

¹⁰ and transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul and establish David’s throne over Israel and Judah from Dan to Beersheba.”^(A)

¹¹ “So I advise you: Let all Israel, from Dan to Beersheba^(A)—as numerous as the sand^(B) on the seashore—be gathered to you, with you yourself leading them into battle.

¹⁵ So the Lord sent a plague on Israel from that morning until the end of the time designated, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.^(A)

²⁵ During Solomon’s lifetime Judah and Israel, from Dan to Beersheba,^(A) lived in safety,^(B) everyone under their own vine and under their own fig tree.^(C)

⁵ They decided to send a proclamation throughout Israel, from Beersheba to Dan,^(A) calling the people to come to Jerusalem and celebrate the Passover to the Lord, the God of Israel. It had not been celebrated in large numbers according to what was written.