Bible Cities

Bethel Scripture - 1 Kings 12:33

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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Bethel Scripture - Joshua 18:13

And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron....

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Bethesda in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("house of mercy".) A water reservoir, or swimming pool (as John 5:2, kolumbeethra, means), with five porches, or colonnades, close to the sheep gate (Nehemiah 3:1) in Jerusalem. The porches accommodated those waiting for the troubling of the waters. John 5:4, as to the angel troubling the water, is omitted in the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus man...

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Bethlehem Scripture - Micah 5:2

But thou, Bethlehem Ephratah, [though] thou be little among the thousands of Judah, [yet] out of thee shall he come forth unto me [that is] to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth [have been] from of old, from everlasting....

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Bethany Scripture - John 11:18

Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:...

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Bethel Scripture - 1 Kings 12:33

So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense....

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Bethel Scripture - 1 Kings 13:4

And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him....

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Bethel in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("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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