בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל

bet-elBethel
hebrewOld TestamentName of a place142 occurrences14 books64 verses
This name belongs to 2 different places in the Bible:
  • Bethel: Important city in Israel, associated with Abraham and Jacob
  • Bethel: Town in Judah that received spoils from David's victory

Definition

from H1004 and H410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine
Traditional renderings: Beth-el.

Glossary entries

Bethel (Place), Bethelite Luz Bethuel, Bethul (Place) Bochim Aven El-bethel

Where it occurs

Old TestamentNew Testament

Occurrences

142 total
  1. Judges 20:18 (2×)בֵֽית־; אֵל֮ · to Bethel
    The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied.
  2. Judges 20:26 (2×)בֵֽית־; אֵ֗ל · to Bethel
    Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.
  3. Judges 20:31 (2×)בֵֽית־ · to; אֵ֗ל · Bethel
    The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.
  4. Judges 21:2 (2×)בֵּֽית־; אֵ֔ל · to Bethel
    So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
  5. Judges 21:19 (4×)לְבֵֽית־; אֵל֙ · of Bethel; מִבֵּֽית־ · from; אֵ֖ל · Bethel
    “But look,” they said, “there is a yearly feast to the LORD in Shiloh, which is north of Bethel east of the road that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”
  6. 1 Samuel 7:16 (2×)בֵּֽית־; אֵ֔ל · Bethel
    Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
  7. 1 Samuel 10:3 (2×)בֵּֽית־; אֵ֑ל · at Bethel
    Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
  8. 1 Samuel 13:2 (2×)בֵּֽית־; אֵ֔ל · of Bethel
    He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.
  9. 1 Samuel 30:27 (2×)בְּבֵֽית־; אֵ֛ל · in Bethel
    He sent gifts to those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;
  10. 1 Kings 12:29 (2×)בְּבֵֽית־; אֵ֑ל · in Bethel
    One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
  11. 1 Kings 12:32 (4×)בְּבֵֽית־; אֵ֔ל · offering in Bethel; בְּבֵ֣ית; אֵ֔ל · in Bethel
    And Jeroboam ordained a feast on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, like the feast that was in Judah, and he offered sacrifices on the altar; he made this offering in Bethel to sacrifice to the calves he had set up, and he installed priests in Bethel for the high places he had set up.
  12. 1 Kings 12:33 (2×)בְּבֵֽית־; אֵ֗ל · in Bethel
    On the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a month of his own choosing, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar he had set up in Bethel. So he ordained a feast for the Israelites, offered sacrifices on the altar, and burned incense.
  13. 1 Kings 13:1 (2×)בֵּֽית־; אֵ֑ל · Bethel
    Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD.
  14. 1 Kings 13:4 (2×)בְּבֵֽית־ · in; אֵ֔ל · Bethel
    Now when King Jeroboam, who was at the altar in Bethel, heard the word that the man of God had cried out against it, he stretched out his hand and said, “Seize him!” But the hand he stretched out toward him withered, so that he could not pull it back.
  15. 1 Kings 13:10 (2×)בֵּֽית־; אֵֽל׃פ · Bethel
    So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
  16. 1 Kings 13:11 (4×)בְּבֵֽית־; אֵ֑ל · in Bethel; בְּבֵֽית־; אֵ֗ל · in Bethel
    Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel, and his sons came and told him all the deeds that the man of God had done that day in Bethel. They also told their father the words that the man had spoken to the king.
  17. 1 Kings 13:32 (2×)בְּבֵֽית־; אֵ֑ל · in Bethel
    …for the message that he cried out by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel and against all the shrines on the high places in the cities of Samaria will surely come to pass.”
  18. 2 Kings 2:2 (4×)בֵּֽית־; אֵ֔ל · Bethel; בֵּֽית־ · to; אֵֽל׃ · Bethel
    …and Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Bethel.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went down to Bethel.
  19. 2 Kings 2:3 (2×)בֵּֽית־ · at; אֵל֮ · Bethel
    Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
  20. 2 Kings 2:23 (2×)בֵּֽית־ · to; אֵ֑ל · Bethel
    From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
  21. 2 Kings 10:29 (2×)בֵּֽית־; אֵ֖ל · at Bethel
    …but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.