Place
Luz
City founded in Hittite territory by a survivor from Canaanite Luz (Bethel), mentioned once in Judges 1.
What and where is this?
This Luz is mentioned briefly in Judges 1:26. When the captured the city of (previously called Luz), they spared a man who showed them its entrance. That man then traveled to the land of the and founded a new city, which he also named Luz — a name it retained in the narrator's day. Beyond this single verse, no further details about this northern Luz appear in the biblical text.
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Places in this story
Modern location: Beitin. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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