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Place

Bethel

patriarchal sanctuary

Site where Jacob dreams and later where Israelite worship is remembered.

64 appearances14 Bible books1 known aliases

Who or what is this?

Hill-country site originally called Luz where dreams of a ladder reaching to heaven and renames the place House of God, setting up the stone he used for a pillow as a pillar. He returns later at God's command, builds an altar, and buries 's nurse under an oak nearby. After the conquest it is one of the recurring sanctuary sites in the period of the judges, and it later becomes one of the royal shrines of the northern kingdom where sets up a golden calf, drawing repeated denunciations from and .

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Places in this story

Modern location: Beitin. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.

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Key passages

All appearances64