Gen 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he

called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.

Matthew Henry Commentary

Observe, 1. Abraham, going into a good neighbourhood, knew

when he was well off, and continued a great while there. There he

planted a grove for a shade to his tent, or perhaps an orchard

of fruit-trees; and there, though we cannot say he settled,

for God would have him, while he lived, to be a stranger

and a pilgrim, yet he sojourned many days, as many as would

consist with his character, as Abraham the Hebrew, or passenger.

2. There he made, not only a constant practice, but an open

profession, of his religion: There he called on the Name of

the Lord, the everlasting God, probably in the grove he planted,

which was his oratory or house of prayer. Christ prayed in a

garden, on a mountain.

(1.) Abraham kept up public worship, to which, probably, his

neighbours resorted, that they might join with him. Note, Good

men should not only retain their goodness wherever they go, but

do all they can to propagate it, and make others good.

(2.) in calling on the Lord, we must eye him as the everlasting

God, the God of the world, so some. Though God had made himself

known to Abraham as his God in particular, and in covenant with

Him, yet he forgets not to give glory to Him as the Lord of all:

The everlasting God, who was, before all worlds, and will be,

when time and days shall be no more. See (Isa. 40:28).