28 Their lands and settlements included Bethel and its surrounding villages, Naaran to the east, Gezer(A) and its villages to the west, and Shechem and its villages all the way to Ayyah and its villages.

Read full chapter

66 Some of the Kohathite clans were given as their territory towns from the tribe of Ephraim.

67 In the hill country of Ephraim they were given Shechem (a city of refuge), and Gezer,[a](A)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Chronicles 6:67 See Joshua 21:21; Hebrew given the cities of refuge: Shechem, Gezer.

22 Now the tribes of Joseph(A) attacked Bethel,(B) and the Lord was with them.

Read full chapter

It went on from Bethel (that is, Luz(A)),[a] crossed over to the territory of the Arkites(B) in Ataroth,(C) descended westward to the territory of the Japhletites as far as the region of Lower Beth Horon(D) and on to Gezer,(E) ending at the Mediterranean Sea.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Joshua 16:2 Septuagint; Hebrew Bethel to Luz

19 He called that place Bethel,[a](A) though the city used to be called Luz.(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 28:19 Bethel means house of God.

Bible Gateway Recommends