Bethel
In the scripture of 1 Kings 12:33, Bethel holds significant spiritual and historical significance. This verse is found in the Old Testament of the Bible and offers insights into the religious practices and divisions of the ancient kingdom of Israel.
In 1 Kings 12:33, the narrative describes the actions of King Jeroboam, who was the first king of th...
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beth'-el (beth-'el; Baithel and oikos theou, literally,
"house of God"):
(1) A town near the place where Abraham halted and offered
sacrifice on his way south from Shechem.
1. Identification and Description:
It lay West of Ai (Gen 12:8). It is named as on the northern
border of Benjamin (the southern of Ephraim, Josh 16:2), at
the top of the as...
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And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him,
Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns
thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof....
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And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up
by the way, there came forth little children out of the city,
and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go
up, thou bald head....
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And their possessions and habitations [were], Bethel and the
towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with
the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto
Gaza and the towns thereof:...
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Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place
which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had
made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and
burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and
burned the grove....
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("house of God".)
1. Abram pitched his tent on a mountain E. of
Bethel, abounding in pasture (Genesis 12:8; Genesis 13:3).
The city, near the place, then bore the Canaanite name Luz.
Bethel is the name given by anticipation to the place;
appropriately so, as Abram virtually made it the "house of
God." It was expressly so named by Jacob, when...
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house of God. (1.) A place in Central Israel, about 10
miles
north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of
Michmash and Ai.
It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz
(Gen. 28:19).
The name Bethel was at first apparently given to the
sanctuary
in the neighbourhood of Luz, and was not given to
the city
itself till after its conques...
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(the house of God) well known city and holy place of
central Israel, about 12 mlles north of Jerusalem. If we
are to accept the precise definition of Ge 12:8 the name of
Bethel would appear to have existed at this spot even before
the arrival of Abram in Canaan. Ge 12:8; 13:3,4 Bethel was
the scene of Jacob's vision. Ge 28:11-19; 31:13 Jacob l...
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