Bethlehem

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.704° N, 35.208° E

• Rachel dies giving birth to Benjaminc. 1739 BC
• Wise Men Visit Jesusc. 4 BC
• Herod slays male childrenc. 4 BC
• Birth of Jesusc. 4 BC

Bethlehem· Ephrath (Place)· Bethlehemite· Jashubi-lehem

• Βηθλεέμ·Bethlehem
• בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי·Bethlehem
• בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם·Bethlehem
• יָשֻׁ֫בִי לָ֑חֶם·Lehem
• אֶפְרָ֫תָה·Ephrath

1. Genesis 35:16אֶפְרָ֫תָה · Ephrath
   Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
2. Genesis 35:19בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem; אֶפְרָ֫תָה · Ephrath
   So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).
3. Genesis 48:7בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem; אֶפְרָ֫תָה · Ephrath
   Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).
4. Judges 12:8בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
   After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
5. Judges 12:10בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
   Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.
6. Judges 17:7בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
   And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah.
7. Judges 17:8בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
   This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
8. Judges 17:9בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
   “Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
9. Judges 19:1בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
   Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
10. Judges 19:2בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    But she was unfaithful to him and left him to return to her father’s house in Bethlehem in Judah. After she had been there four months,
11. Judges 19:18בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,
12. Ruth 1:1בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
13. Ruth 1:2בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    The man’s name was Elimelech, his wife’s name was Naomi, and the names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion. They were Ephrathites from Bethlehem in Judah, and they entered the land of Moab and settled there.
14. Ruth 1:19בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole town was stirred because of them, and the women of the town exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”
15. Ruth 1:22בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    So Naomi returned from the land of Moab with her daughter-in-law Ruth the Moabitess. And they arrived in Bethlehem at the beginning of the barley harvest.
16. Ruth 2:4בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.
17. Ruth 4:11בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem; אֶפְרָ֫תָה · Ephrath
    “We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.
18. 1 Samuel 16:1בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי · Bethlehem
    Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.”
19. 1 Samuel 16:4בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
20. 1 Samuel 16:18בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי · Bethlehem
    One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the harp. He is a mighty man of valor, a warrior, eloquent and handsome, and the LORD is with him.”
21. 1 Samuel 17:12בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons. And in the days of Saul, Jesse was old and well along in years.
22. 1 Samuel 17:15בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    …but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep in Bethlehem.
23. 1 Samuel 17:58בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי · Bethlehem
    “Whose son are you, young man?” asked Saul. “I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem,” David replied.
24. 1 Samuel 20:6בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    If your father misses me at all, tell him, ‘David urgently requested my permission to hurry to Bethlehem, his hometown, because there is an annual sacrifice for his whole clan.’
25. 1 Samuel 20:28בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    Jonathan answered, “David urgently requested my permission to go to Bethlehem,
26. 2 Samuel 2:32בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    And they took Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb in Bethlehem. Then Joab and his men marched all night and reached Hebron at daybreak.
27. 2 Samuel 21:19בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי · Bethlehem
    Once again there was a battle with the Philistines at Gob, and Elhanan son of Jair the Bethlehemite killed the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the shaft of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.
28. 2 Samuel 23:14בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    At that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was at Bethlehem.
29. 2 Samuel 23:15בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
30. 2 Samuel 23:16בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,
31. 2 Samuel 23:24בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    Now these were members of the Thirty: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
32. 1 Chronicles 2:51בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    Salma the father of Bethlehem, and Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
33. 1 Chronicles 2:54בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    The descendants of Salma: Bethlehem, the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-joab, half the Manahathites, the Zorites,
34. 1 Chronicles 4:4בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    Penuel was the father of Gedor, and Ezer was the father of Hushah. These were the descendants of Hur, the firstborn of Ephrathah and the father of Bethlehem.
35. 1 Chronicles 4:22יָשֻׁ֫בִי לָ֑חֶם · Lehem
    Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)
36. 1 Chronicles 11:16בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    At that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was at Bethlehem.
37. 1 Chronicles 11:17בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!”
38. 1 Chronicles 11:18בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    So the Three broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well at the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,
39. 1 Chronicles 11:26בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    Now these were the mighty men: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
40. 2 Chronicles 11:6בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,
41. Ezra 2:21בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    …the men of Bethlehem, 123;
42. Nehemiah 7:26בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    …the men of Bethlehem and Netophah, 188;
43. Psalm 132:6אֶפְרָ֫תָה · Ephrath
    We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.
44. Jeremiah 41:17בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem
    And they went and stayed in Geruth Chimham, near Bethlehem, in order to proceed into Egypt
45. Micah 5:2בֵּית לֶ֫חֶם · Bethlehem; אֶפְרָ֫תָה · Ephrath
    But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.
46. Matthew 2:1Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,
47. Matthew 2:5Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written:
48. Matthew 2:6Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.’”
49. Matthew 2:8Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go and worship Him.”
50. Matthew 2:16Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi.
51. Luke 2:4Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.
52. Luke 2:15Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”
53. John 7:42Βηθλεέμ · Bethlehem
    Doesn’t the Scripture say that the Christ will come from the line of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”