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Quotes About Hebron

There was thus a Hittite population which clustered round Hebron, and to whom the origin of Jerusalem was partly due.
~ A. H. SAYCE.
We will make a great and awful mistake if we fail to settle Hebron, neighbor and predecessor of Jerusalem, with a large Jewish settlement, constantly growing and expanding, very soon. This will also be a blessing to the Arab neighbors. Hebron is worthy to be Jerusalem's sister.
~ David Ben Gurion
Third, intimacy with God—living at Hebron—will cause your intercession to defeat the giants in your life and others' lives.
~ Dutch Sheets
Fourth, a Hebron lifestyle will give you the ability to walk in great authority.
~ Dutch Sheets
God wants to crown us, like David, with the authority to rule in ungodly situations. Intercessors rule from Hebron.
~ Dutch Sheets
In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)
~ Jonathan Stroud
Hebron is a bone of contention between Israeli settlers and the Palestinians in part because Abraham is buried there, in the Tomb of the Patriarchs.
~ Michael Korda
And it came to pass in those days, in the hundred and tenth year of the life of Isaac, that is in the fiftieth year of the life of Jacob, in that year died Shem the son of Noah; Shem was six hundred years old at his death. And when Shem died Jacob returned to his father to Hebron which is in the land of Canaan." Ancient Book of Jasher 28:24-25
~ Ken Johnson
The curse of Abraham continues to poison Hebron, but the religious warrant for blood sacrifice poisons our entire civilization.
~ Christopher Hitchens
So Abram moved his tent and went to live near the Oaks of Mamre at Hebron, where he built an altar to the LORD.
~ Genesis 13:18
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
~ Genesis 23:2
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
~ Genesis 23:19
Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.
~ Genesis 35:27
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
~ Genesis 37:14
The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
~ Numbers 3:19
They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.
~ Numbers 13:22
Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
~ Joshua 10:3
So the five kings of the Amorites—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon—joined forces and advanced with all their armies. They camped before Gibeon and made war against it.
~ Joshua 10:5
So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
~ Joshua 10:23
Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and fought against it.
~ Joshua 10:36
the king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
~ Joshua 12:10
(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.
~ Joshua 14:15
According to the LORDís command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)
~ Joshua 15:13
Humtah, Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), and Zior—nine cities, along with their villages.
~ Joshua 15:54