Places of the Bible

Besor

Valley · wadi esh sheria

Where the name appears

Events told in passages that name Besor, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.

Reign of Saul · 1094 BC · 3 verses

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

Cold, a ravine or brook in the extreme south-west of Judah, where 200 of David’s men stayed behind because they were faint, while the other 400 pursued the Amalekites (1 Sam. 30:9, 10, 21). Probably the Wadyes Sheriah, south of Gaza.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 3 verses

1 Samuel: 30:9, 30:10, 30:21

The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.