Ruth 1:1 mention
In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.
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The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab, and lived there.
Preview context Ruth 1:19 event
So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”
Preview context Ruth 1:22 event
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter-in-law, with her, who returned out of the country of Moab. They came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Preview context Ruth 2:4 event
Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”
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All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.
Preview context 1 Samuel 16:4 event
Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
Preview context 1 Samuel 17:12 mention
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
Preview context 1 Samuel 17:15 event
Now David went back and forth from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Bethlehem.
Preview context 1 Samuel 20:6 event
If your father misses me at all, then say, ‘David earnestly asked leave of me that he might run to Bethlehem his city; for it is the yearly sacrifice there for all the family.’
Preview context 1 Samuel 20:28 event
Jonathan answered Saul, “David earnestly asked permission of me to go to Bethlehem.
Preview context 2 Samuel 2:32 event
They took up Asahel, and buried him in the tomb of his father, which was in Bethlehem. Joab and his men went all night, and the day broke on them at Hebron.
Preview context 2 Samuel 23:14 mention
David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
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David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
Preview context 2 Samuel 23:16 event
The three mighty men broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem that was by the gate, and took it and brought it to David; but he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Yahweh.
Preview context 2 Samuel 23:24 mention
Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty: Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Preview context 1 Chronicles 2:51 mention
Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth Gader.
Preview context 1 Chronicles 2:54 mention
The sons of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth Beth Joab, and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
Preview context 1 Chronicles 4:4 mention
Penuel was the father of Gedor and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah, the father of Bethlehem.
Preview context 1 Chronicles 11:16 mention
David was then in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was in Bethlehem at that time.
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David longed, and said, “Oh that one would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”
Preview context 1 Chronicles 11:18 event
The three broke through the army of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink any of it, but poured it out to Yahweh,
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The mighty men of the armies also include Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
Preview context 2 Chronicles 11:6 mention
He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
Preview context Ezra 2:21 mention
The children of Bethlehem, one hundred twenty-three.
Preview context Nehemiah 7:26 mention
The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, one hundred eighty-eight.
Preview context Micah 5:2 mention
But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.
Preview context Matthew 2:1 event
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,
Preview context Matthew 2:5 event
They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,
Preview context Matthew 2:6 mention
‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’”
Preview context Matthew 2:8 event
He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, “Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him.”
Preview context Matthew 2:16 event
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the exact time which he had learned from the wise men.
Preview context Luke 2:4 mention
Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;
Preview context Luke 2:15 event
When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
Preview context John 7:42 event
Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”
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