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Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and lived there, for fear of Abimelech his brother.
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Verse 21. Bera. Hebrew Bar or Beera, “the well.” There was a place of this name in the tribe of Ruben, where the Israelites encamped. Numbers 21:16. Bersabee, in the tribe of Juda, was another famous well, and it is probable that Joatham would retire to some distant place. Bible.—S. Jerom mentions a Bera, eight miles north of Eleutheropolis; and Maundrell speaks of another, about 21 miles from Sichem, on the road to Jerusalem. The dominion of Abimelech did not extend far. Calmet.
“Beer” is Hebrew for “well”, that is, a village named for its well.
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