The following are History of Beersheba:

In the Bible

Beer Sheva (literally, "Well of the Oath") was first mentioned in the Bible in the book of Genesis. It is believed to be the location of the oath between Abraham and Abimelech. Genesis 21:

21:25 And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water, which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away

21:26 And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I [of it], but to day.

21:27 And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and both of them made a covenant.

21:28 And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

21:29 And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What [mean] these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

21:30 And he said, For [these] seven ewe lambs shalt thou take of my hand, that they may be a witness unto me, that I have digged this well.

21:31 Wherefore he called that place Beersheba; because there they sware both of them.

21:32 Thus they made a covenant at Beersheba: then Abimelech rose up, and Phichol the chief captain of his host, and they returned into the land of the Philistines.

21:33 And [Abraham] planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name of the LORD, the everlasting God.

21:34 And Abraham sojourned in the Philistines' land many days.

According to Genesis 21:31 "Beersheba" means "Well of Oath" and not the popular "Seven Wells".

In latest era

In the time that the Roman Empire was control in the area, the most of Tel Beersheba was inhabited. In the thereat, the inhabitant start in masonry of Fortress.

The latest inhabitants of Tel Beer Sheva were the Byzantines, which abandoned the city at the 7th century AD.

The Ottoman Empire rebuilt the city as an administration center during the early 1900s. The city was captured by the British army at 1917. After the British mandate of Palestine has ended in 1947, Beer Sheva was captured by Israeli forces on October 21, 1948 during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Most of the Muslim citizens fled the city and it has since been settled by Jews immigrating from North Africa, Middle East arab countries and Eastern Europe (including the former Soviet Union).