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Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the Lord and called upon the name of the Lord.
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And he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
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Then he named that place Bethel; but previously the name of the city had been Luz.
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I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a memorial stone, where you made a vow to Me; now arise, leave this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”
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Jacob Moves to Bethel
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and live there, and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
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and let’s arise and go up to Bethel, and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me on the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”
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So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
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Then he built an altar there, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed Himself to him when he fled from his brother.
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Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died, and she was buried below Bethel under the oak; and it was named Allon-bacuth.
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And Jacob named the place where God had spoken with him, Bethel.
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Then they journeyed on from Bethel; but when there was still some distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth and she suffered severe difficulties in her labor.
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Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
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So Joshua sent them away, and they went to the place of ambush and remained between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua spent that night among the people.
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Then he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
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So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel, but they had all gone out after Israel, and they left the city unguarded and pursued Israel.
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the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
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the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
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Territory of Ephraim
Then the lot for the sons of Joseph went from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
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It went from Bethel to Luz, and continued to the border of the Archites at Ataroth.
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Then from there the border continued to Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel) southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, near the hill which lies on the south of lower Beth-horon.
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Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, and Bethel,
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Likewise the house of Joseph went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.
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The house of Joseph had men spy out Bethel (the name of the city previously was Luz).
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She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel went up to her for judgment.
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Civil War, Benjamin Defeated
Now the sons of Israel set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God and said, “Who shall go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin?” Then the Lord said, “Judah shall go up first.”
