Genesis 22:19: The walk back, and the map has no honest place to start it

"So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba." The chapter ends the way a long day ends: everybody goes home and the sentence says so twice. They went to Beersheba, and Abraham lived at Beersheba. Isaac is not mentioned. He went up the mountain in verse 6 and he does not come down it in the text — the next time he appears he is a grown man walking in a field in the evening, waiting for a wife he has not met. Sarah does not appear again either; the chapter after this one opens with her death. Whatever this verse is, it is not a scene of reunion. What it is, for a map, is a leg with a destination and no origin. The mountain was never named and this series declined to pick one; the young men were left "here with the donkey" somewhere at the foot of it. So the line on this page comes in over the north edge of the frame and arrives at the town, and there is no pin behind it — which is the same thing the map of Genesis 20:1 did with "from there", where the ridge at Hebron is where the walk starts and Mamre is not named in the verse. Beersheba itself is by now the most settled address he has. He named it, dug at it, swore over the well, planted a tree beside it, and set out from it for Moriah; this is the fourth verse map in five to have it on the frame. It is also the last time it is his. The next chapter takes him twenty-five miles north-east to Hebron, and everything after that happens there.