BETH-EL

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• Genesis 12:8

  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.

• Genesis 13:3

  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,

• Genesis 13:4

  to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

• Genesis 28:10

  Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

• Genesis 28:11

  He came to a certain place, and stayed there all night, because the sun had set. He took one of the stones of the place, and put it under his head, and lay down in that place to sleep.

• Genesis 28:12

  He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

• Genesis 28:13

  Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.

• Genesis 28:14

  Your offspring will be as the dust of the earth, and you will spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and to the south. In you and in your offspring will all the families of the earth be blessed.

• Genesis 28:15

  Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you.”

• Genesis 28:16

  Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”

• Genesis 28:17

  He was afraid, and said, “How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God’s house, and this is the gate of heaven.”

• Genesis 28:18

  Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

• Genesis 28:19

  He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

• Genesis 28:20

  Jacob vowed a vow, saying, “If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

• Genesis 28:21

  so that I come again to my father’s house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

• Genesis 28:22

  then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

• Genesis 31:13

  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.’”

• Genesis 35:1

  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.”

• Genesis 35:2

  Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

• Genesis 35:3

  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.”

• Genesis 35:4

  They gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.

• Genesis 35:5

  They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.

• Genesis 35:6

  So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

• Genesis 35:7

  He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

• Genesis 35:8

  Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and its name was called Allon Bacuth.

• Genesis 35:9

  God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

• Genesis 35:10

  God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

• Genesis 35:11

  God said to him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your body.

• Genesis 35:12

  The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac, I will give it to you, and to your offspring after you will I give the land.”

• Genesis 35:13

  God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

• Genesis 35:14

  Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

• Genesis 35:15

  Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him “Bethel”.

• Joshua 8:17

  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.

• Joshua 12:16

  the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

• Joshua 18:13

  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.

• Joshua 18:22

  Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

• Judges 1:22

  The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Yahweh was with them.

• Judges 1:23

  The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)

• Judges 1:24

  The watchers saw a man come out of the city, and they said to him, “Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you.”

• Judges 1:25

  He showed them the entrance into the city, and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man and all his family go.

• Judges 1:26

  The man went into the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

• Judges 4:5

  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.

• Judges 20:18

  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.”

• Judges 20:31

  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.

• Judges 21:2

  The people came to Bethel, and sat there until evening before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept severely.

• 1 Samuel 7:16

  He went from year to year in a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.

• 1 Samuel 13:2

  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.

• 1 Samuel 30:27

  He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,

• 1 Kings 12:25

  Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and lived in it; and he went out from there, and built Penuel.

• 1 Kings 12:26

  Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom will return to David’s house.

• 1 Kings 12:27

  If this people goes up to offer sacrifices in Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, then the heart of this people will turn again to their lord, even to Rehoboam king of Judah; and they will kill me, and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

• 1 Kings 12:28

  So the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said to them, “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem. Look and behold your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

• 1 Kings 12:29

  He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

• 1 Kings 12:30

  This thing became a sin; for the people went even as far as Dan to worship before the one there.

• 1 Kings 12:31

  He made houses of high places, and made priests from among all the people, who were not of the sons of Levi.

• 1 Kings 12:32

  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.

• 1 Kings 12:33

  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.

• 1 Kings 13:1

  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.

• 1 Kings 13:2

  He cried against the altar by Yahweh’s word, and said, “Altar! Altar! Yahweh says: ‘Behold, a son will be born to David’s house, Josiah by name. On you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense on you, and they will burn men’s bones on you.’”

• 1 Kings 13:3

  He gave a sign the same day, saying, “This is the sign which Yahweh has spoken: Behold, the altar will be split apart, and the ashes that are on it will be poured out.”

• 1 Kings 13:4

  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.

• 1 Kings 13:5

  The altar was also split apart, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by Yahweh’s word.

• 1 Kings 13:6

  The king answered the man of God, “Now intercede for the favor of Yahweh your God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again.” The man of God interceded with Yahweh, and the king’s hand was restored to him again, and became as it was before.

• 1 Kings 13:32

  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.”

• 2 Kings 2:3

  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.”

• 2 Kings 2:23

  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!”

• 2 Kings 2:24

  He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in Yahweh’s name. Then two female bears came out of the woods, and mauled forty-two of those youths.

• 2 Kings 10:29

  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.

• 2 Kings 17:27

  Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, “Carry there one of the priests whom you brought from there; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the law of the god of the land.”

• 2 Kings 17:28

  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.

• 2 Kings 23:4

  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.

• 2 Kings 23:15

  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.

• 2 Kings 23:16

  As Josiah turned himself, he spied the tombs that were there in the mountain; and he sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to Yahweh’s word which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these things.

• 2 Kings 23:17

  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.”

• 2 Kings 23:18

  He said, “Let him be! Let no one move his bones.” So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet who came out of Samaria.

• 2 Kings 23:19

  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.

• 2 Kings 23:20

  He killed all the priests of the high places that were there, on the altars, and burned men’s bones on them; and he returned to Jerusalem.

• Ezra 2:28

  The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty-three.

• Nehemiah 7:32

  The men of Bethel and Ai, one hundred twenty-three.

• Jeremiah 48:13

  Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

• Hosea 12:4

  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,

• Amos 3:14

  “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.

• Amos 4:4

  “Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

• Amos 5:5

  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.