Bethel

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

31.923° N, 35.241° E

• Abraham enters Canaanc. 1921 BC

Bethel (Place), Bethelite· Luz· Aven· Bochim· El-bethel· Bokim

• בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל·Bethel
• בֵּית הָאֱלִי·Bethel
• בֹּכִים·Bochimmeans “the place of weeping; or of mulberry-trees”
• אָ֫וֶן·Avenmeans “iniquity; force; riches; sorrow”
• לוּז·Luzmeans “separation; departure; an almond”
• אֵל בֵּית־אֵל·El-bethelmeans “the God of Bethel”

Includes 2 verses that refer to Bethel without naming it.

1. Genesis 12:8בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
   From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.
2. Genesis 13:3בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
   From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
3. Genesis 28:19בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel; לוּז · Luz
   …and he called that place Bethel, though previously the city had been named Luz.
4. Genesis 31:13בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
   I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up, leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”
5. Genesis 35:1בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
   Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
6. Genesis 35:3בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
   Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”
7. Genesis 35:6בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel; לוּז · Luz
   So Jacob and everyone with him arrived in Luz (that is, Bethel) in the land of Canaan.
8. Genesis 35:7אֵל בֵּית־אֵל · El-bethel
   There Jacob built an altar, and he called that place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed Himself to Jacob as he fled from his brother.
9. Genesis 35:8בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
   Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bacuth.
10. Genesis 35:15בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.
11. Genesis 35:16בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    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.
12. Genesis 48:3לוּז · Luz
    Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and there He blessed me
13. Joshua 7:2בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
14. Joshua 8:9בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
15. Joshua 8:12בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Now Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
16. Joshua 8:17בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.
17. Joshua 12:9בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    …the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
18. Joshua 12:16בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    …the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
19. Joshua 16:1בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.
20. Joshua 16:2בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel; לוּז · Luz
    It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz) and proceeded to the border of the Archites in Ataroth.
21. Joshua 18:13בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel; לוּז · Luz
    From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.
22. Joshua 18:22בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
23. Judges 1:22בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.
24. Judges 1:23בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel; לוּז · Luz
    They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz),
25. Judges 2:1בֹּכִים · Bochim
    Now the angel of the LORD went up from Gilgal to Bochim and said, “I brought you up out of Egypt and led you into the land that I had promised to your fathers, and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you,
26. Judges 2:5בֹּכִים · Bochim
    So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.
27. Judges 4:5בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.
28. Judges 20:18בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
29. Judges 20:26בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
30. Judges 20:31בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
31. Judges 21:2בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.
32. Judges 21:19בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.”
33. 1 Samuel 7:16בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.
34. 1 Samuel 10:3בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
35. 1 Samuel 13:2בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
36. 1 Kings 12:29בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    One calf he set up in Bethel, and the other in Dan.
37. 1 Kings 12:32בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
38. 1 Kings 12:33בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
39. 1 Kings 13:1בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
40. 1 Kings 13:4בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
41. 1 Kings 13:8Referred to, not named
    But the man of God replied, “If you were to give me half your possessions, I still would not go with you, nor would I eat bread or drink water in this place.
42. 1 Kings 13:10בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    So the man of God went another way and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel.
43. 1 Kings 13:11בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
44. 1 Kings 13:32בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.”
45. 1 Kings 16:34בֵּית הָאֱלִי · Bethel
    In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
46. 2 Kings 2:2בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
47. 2 Kings 2:3בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.”
48. 2 Kings 2:23בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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!”
49. 2 Kings 10:29בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · 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.
50. 2 Kings 17:28בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.
51. 2 Kings 23:4בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.
52. 2 Kings 23:15בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.
53. 2 Kings 23:17בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Then the king asked, “What is this monument I see?” And the men of the city replied, “It is the tomb of the man of God who came from Judah and proclaimed these things that you have done to the altar of Bethel.”
54. 2 Kings 23:19בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Just as Josiah had done at Bethel, so also in the cities of Samaria he removed all the shrines of the high places set up by the kings of Israel who had provoked the LORD to anger.
55. 1 Chronicles 7:28בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Their holdings and settlements included Bethel and its villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages as far as Ayyah and its villages.
56. 2 Chronicles 13:19בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, along with their villages.
57. Ezra 2:28בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    …the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;
58. Nehemiah 7:32בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    …the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;
59. Nehemiah 11:31בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
60. Jeremiah 48:13בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.
61. Hosea 10:8אָ֫וֶן · Aven
    The high places of Aven will be destroyed—it is the sin of Israel; thorns and thistles will overgrow their altars. Then they will say to the mountains, “Cover us!” and to the hills, “Fall on us!”
62. Hosea 10:15בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Thus it will be done to you, O Bethel, because of your great wickedness. When the day dawns, the king of Israel will be utterly cut off.
63. Hosea 12:4בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—
64. Amos 3:14בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.
65. Amos 4:4בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    “Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.
66. Amos 5:5בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
67. Amos 5:6בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
68. Amos 7:10בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land cannot bear all his words,
69. Amos 7:13בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.”
70. Zechariah 7:2בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל · Bethel
    Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD
71. Zechariah 7:3Referred to, not named
    …by asking the priests of the house of the LORD of Hosts, as well as the prophets, “Should I weep and fast in the fifth month, as I have done these many years?”