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From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to Yahweh there, and he called on the name of Yahweh.
He went by stages from the Negev to Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been,
I am the God of Bethel, where you poured oil on the stone marker and made a solemn vow to Me.
God said to Jacob, “Get up! Go to Bethel and settle there.
We must get up and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in my day of distress.
So Jacob and all who were with him came to Luz (that is, Bethel
Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel
Deborah, the one who had nursed and raised Rebekah,
They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven,
So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.
Now Joshua had taken about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city exposed while they pursued Israel.
The allotment for the descendants of Joseph
From Bethel it went to Luz and proceeded to the border of the Archites by Ataroth.
From there the border went toward Luz, to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel); it then went down by Ataroth-addar, over the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.
It was her custom to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her for judgment.
They set out, went to Bethel, and inquired of God.
And the Lord answered, “Judah will be first.”
The whole Israelite army went to Bethel where they wept and sat before the Lord.
Then the Benjaminites came out against the people and were drawn away from the city.
So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God
They also said, “Look, there’s an annual festival to the Lord in Shiloh,
Every year he would go on a circuit to Bethel, Gilgal, and Mizpah and would judge Israel at all these locations.
“You will proceed from there until you come to the oak of Tabor.
He chose 3,000 men from Israel for himself: 2,000 were with Saul at Michmash
He sent gifts to those in Bethel,
Jeroboam made a festival in the eighth month on the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival in Judah.
He offered sacrifices on
A man of God
When the king heard the word that the man of God had cried out against the altar at Bethel, Jeroboam stretched out his hand from the altar and said, “Arrest him!” But the hand he stretched out against him withered, and he could not pull it back to himself.
Now a certain old prophet was living in Bethel.
for the word that he cried out by a revelation from the Lord against the altar in Bethel
and Elijah said to Elisha,
But Elisha replied, “As the Lord lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.”
Then the sons of the prophets
He said, “Yes, I know. Be quiet.”
From there Elisha went up to Bethel.
but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—worshiping the gold calves that were in Bethel and Dan.
So one of the priests they had deported came and lived in Bethel,
Then the king commanded Hilkiah
He even tore down the altar at Bethel
Then he said, “What is this monument 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 to the altar at Bethel.”
Josiah also removed all the shrines of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord.
Their holdings and settlements were Bethel
Abijah pursued Jeroboam and captured some cities from him: Bethel and its villages, Jeshanah and its villages, and Ephron
from Geba,
and Bethel
just as the house of Israel was put to shame
because of Bethel
because of your extreme evil.
At dawn the king of Israel will be totally destroyed.
he wept and sought His favor.
He found him
and there He spoke with him.
on the day I punish Israel for its crimes;
the horns of the altar
and fall to the ground.
rebel even more at Gilgal!
Bring your sacrifices every morning,
your tenths every three days.
or go to Gilgal
or journey to Beer-sheba,
for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,
and Bethel will come to nothing.
or He will spread like fire
throughout the house of Joseph;
it will consume everything,
with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
Amaziah the priest
but don’t ever prophesy