Bible History
Bible History
Choose a Category

Bible Cities

Bethel Scripture - Genesis 31:13

I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred....

Read More

Bethesda in Easton's Bible Dictionary

house of mercy, a reservoir (Gr. kolumbethra, "a swimming bath") with five porches, close to the sheep-gate or market (Neh. 3:1; John 5:2). Eusebius the historian (A.D. 330) calls it "the sheep-pool." It is also called "Bethsaida" and "Beth-zatha" (John 5:2, R.V. marg.). Under these "porches" or colonnades were usually a large number of i...

Read More

Bethlehem in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("house of bread"), i.e. in a fertile region. Two hours journey, in a southward or rather southwesterly direction from Jerusalem, by the Jaffa gate. Existing at the time of Jacob's return to Israel; originally called Ephrath or Ephrath, i.e. fruitful (Genesis 35:16; Genesis 35:19; Genesis 48:7; Psalm 132:6). Hur and Salma, Hur's son, both hav...

Read More

Bethlehem Scripture - Ruth 1:22

So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest....

Read More

Bethany Scripture - Matthew 26:6

Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,...

Read More

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....

Read More

Bethlehem in Hitchcock's Bible Names

house of bread...

Read More

Bethel in Easton's Bible Dictionary

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

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...

Read More

61 Bible Translations

Popular Articles

Explore the Bible Like Never Before!

Bible History Online

Bible Study Tools

Top Tags