Genesis 12:8 mention
He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.
Preview context Genesis 13:3 event
He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Preview context Genesis 28:19 mention
He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
Preview context Genesis 31:13 mention
I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
Preview context Genesis 35:1 event
God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
Preview context Genesis 35:3 event
Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”
Preview context Genesis 35:6 mention
So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
Preview context Genesis 35:8 event
Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.
Preview context Genesis 35:15 mention
Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.
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They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
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Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.
Preview context Joshua 8:9 mention
Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.
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He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
Preview context Joshua 8:17 mention
There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
Preview context Joshua 12:9 mention
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
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the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
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The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
Preview context Joshua 16:2 event
It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;
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The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
Preview context Joshua 18:22 mention
Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
Preview context Judges 1:22 mention
The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.
Preview context Judges 1:23 mention
The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
Preview context Judges 4:5 mention
She lived under Deborah’s palm tree between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
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The children of Israel arose, went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God. They asked, “Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin?” Yahweh said, “Judah first.”
Preview context Judges 20:26 mention
Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until evening; then they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
Preview context Judges 20:31 mention
The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
Preview context Judges 21:2 event
The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.
Preview context Judges 21:19 event
They said, “Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.”
Preview context 1 Samuel 7:16 event
He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
Preview context 1 Samuel 10:3 event
“Then you will go on forward from there, and you will come to the oak of Tabor. Three men will meet you there going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three young goats, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine.
Preview context 1 Samuel 13:2 mention
Saul chose for himself three thousand men of Israel, of which two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. He sent the rest of the people to their own tents.
Preview context 1 Samuel 30:27 event
He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,
Preview context 1 Kings 12:29 mention
He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
Preview context 1 Kings 12:32 event
Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like the feast that is in Judah, and he went up to the altar. He did so in Bethel, sacrificing to the calves that he had made, and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places that he had made.
Preview context 1 Kings 12:33 mention
He went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up to the altar, to burn incense.
Preview context 1 Kings 13:1 mention
Behold, a man of God came out of Judah by Yahweh’s word to Beth El; and Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.
Preview context 1 Kings 13:4 event
When the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Bethel, Jeroboam put out his hand from the altar, saying, “Seize him!” His hand, which he put out against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to himself.
Preview context 1 Kings 13:10 event
So he went another way, and didn’t return by the way that he came to Bethel.
Preview context 1 Kings 13:11 event
Now an old prophet lived in Bethel, and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words which he had spoken to the king.
Preview context 1 Kings 13:32 event
For the saying which he cried by Yahweh’s word against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, will surely happen.”
Preview context 2 Kings 2:2 event
Elijah said to Elisha, “Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel.” Elisha said, “As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
Preview context 2 Kings 2:3 mention
The sons of the prophets who were at Bethel came out to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that Yahweh will take away your master from your head today?” He said, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
Preview context 2 Kings 2:23 event
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”
Preview context 2 Kings 10:29 mention
However, Jehu didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, with which he made Israel to sin, the golden calves that were in Bethel and that were in Dan.
Preview context 2 Kings 17:28 event
So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and lived in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear Yahweh.
Preview context 2 Kings 23:4 event
The king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring out of Yahweh’s temple all the vessels that were made for Baal, for the Asherah, and for all the army of the sky, and he burned them outside of Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried their ashes to Bethel.
Preview context 2 Kings 23:15 mention
Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, even that altar and the high place he broke down; and he burned the high place and beat it to dust, and burned the Asherah.
Preview context 2 Kings 23:17 mention
Then he said, “What monument is that which I see?” The men of the city told him, “It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel.”
Preview context 2 Kings 23:19 event
All the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke Yahweh to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
Preview context 1 Chronicles 7:28 mention
Their possessions and settlements were Bethel and its towns, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with its towns; Shechem also and its towns, to Azzah and its towns;
Preview context 2 Chronicles 13:19 mention
Abijah pursued Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages, Jeshanah with its villages, and Ephron with its villages.
Preview context Ezra 2:28 mention
The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.
Preview context Nehemiah 7:32 mention
The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three.
Preview context Nehemiah 11:31 mention
The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
Preview context Jeremiah 48:13 mention
Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.
Preview context Hosea 10:15 mention
So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.
Preview context Hosea 12:4 event
Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
Preview context Amos 3:14 mention
“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.
Preview context Amos 4:4 mention
“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
Preview context Amos 5:5 mention
but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.
Preview context Amos 5:6 mention
Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
Preview context Amos 7:10 mention
Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the middle of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.
Preview context Amos 7:13 mention
but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”
Preview context Zechariah 7:2 mention
The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat Yahweh’s favor,
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