BETHLEHEM

Passages on this topic · 27

• Genesis 35:16

  They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

• Genesis 35:19

  Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

• Genesis 48:7

  As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

• Joshua 19:15

  Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

• Judges 12:10

  Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.

• Judges 17:7

  There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

• Judges 17:8

  The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, as he traveled.

• Judges 17:9

  Micah said to him, “Where did you come from?” He said to him, “I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I am looking for a place to live.”

• Judges 19:1

  In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

• Judges 19:18

  He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

• Ruth 1:1

  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.

• Ruth 1:19

  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?”

• Ruth 2:4

  Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

• 1 Samuel 17:12

  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.

• 2 Samuel 23:14

  David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.

• 2 Samuel 23:15

  David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!”

• 2 Samuel 23:16

  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.

• 2 Chronicles 11:6

  He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

• Psalms 132:6

  Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:

• Micah 5:2

  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.

• Matthew 2:5

  They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,

• Matthew 2:6

  ‘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.’”

• Matthew 2:16

  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.

• Matthew 2:17

  Then that which was spoken by Jeremiah the prophet was fulfilled, saying,

• Matthew 2:18

  “A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; she wouldn’t be comforted, because they are no more.”

• Luke 2:4

  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;

• Luke 2:15

  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.”