# בֵּית־אֵל (beyt-el)

Israeli respelling: beyt-el. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1008. 65 Old Testament occurrences.

Beth-El, a place in Palestine

King James renderings: Beth-el.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/beytel-h1008

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/8) — And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and…
- [Genesis 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/13/3) — And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
- [Genesis 28:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/28/19) — And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.
- [Genesis 31:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Genesis 35:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/1) — And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fledd…
- [Genesis 35:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/3) — And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me…
- [Genesis 35:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/6) — So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
- [Genesis 35:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/7) — And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.
- [Genesis 35:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/8) — But Deborah Rebekah’s nurse died, and she was buried beneath Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
- [Genesis 35:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/15) — And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Bethel.
- [Genesis 35:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/35/16) — And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
- [Joshua 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/2) — And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view t…
- [Joshua 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/9) — Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodge…
- [Joshua 8:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/12) — And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
- [Joshua 8:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/8/17) — And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
- [Joshua 12:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/9) — The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
- [Joshua 12:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/12/16) — The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
- [Joshua 16:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/16/1) — And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up f…
- [Joshua 16:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/16/2) — And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
- [Joshua 18:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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, n…
- [Joshua 18:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/18/22) — And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
- [Judges 1:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/22) — And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel: and the LORD was with them.
- [Judges 1:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/1/23) — And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
- [Judges 4:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/4/5) — And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgm…
- [Judges 20:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/18) — And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the…
- [Judges 20:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/26) — Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and…
- [Judges 20:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/20/31) — And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kil…
- [Judges 21:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/2) — And the people came to the house of God, and abode there till even before God, and lifted up their voices, and wept sore;
- [Judges 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/21/19) — Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of…
- [1 Samuel 7:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/7/16) — And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.
- [1 Samuel 10:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/3) — Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God t…
- [1 Samuel 13:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/2) — Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with…
- [1 Samuel 30:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/30/27) — To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
- [1 Kings 12:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/29) — And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
- [1 Kings 12:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/32) — And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered…
- [1 Kings 12:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 h…
- [1 Kings 13:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/1) — And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
- [1 Kings 13:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [1 Kings 13:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/10) — So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he came to Bethel.
- [1 Kings 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/11) — Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the…
- [1 Kings 13:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/13/32) — For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are…
- [2 Kings 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/2) — And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, an…
- [2 Kings 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/3) — And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy mas…
- [2 Kings 2:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/2/23) — 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…
- [2 Kings 10:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/29) — Howbeit from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, Jehu departed not from after them, to wit, the golden calves th…
- [2 Kings 17:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/17/28) — Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught them how they should fear the LORD.
- [2 Kings 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/4) — And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the…
- [2 Kings 23:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/15) — 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 alta…
- [2 Kings 23:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/17) — Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah…
- [2 Kings 23:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/23/19) — And all the houses also of the high places that were in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke the Lord to an…
- [1 Chronicles 7:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/7/28) — And their possessions and habitations were, Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof;…
- [2 Chronicles 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/13/19) — And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrai…
- [Ezra 2:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/2/28) — The men of Bethel and Ai, two hundred twenty and three.
- [Nehemiah 7:32](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/7/32) — The men of Bethel and Ai, an hundred twenty and three.
- [Nehemiah 11:31](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/11/31) — The children also of Benjamin from Geba dwelt at Michmash, and Aija, and Bethel, and in their villages,
- [Jeremiah 48:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/13) — And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.
- [Hosea 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/10/15) — So shall Bethel do unto you because of your great wickedness: in a morning shall the king of Israel utterly be cut off.
- [Hosea 12:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/12/4) — Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with u…
- [Amos 3:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/3/14) — That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar…
- [Amos 4:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/4) — Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three year…
- [Amos 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/5) — But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to…
- [Amos 5:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/5/6) — Seek the LORD, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth…
- [Amos 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/10) — Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Is…
- [Amos 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/7/13) — But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court.
- [Zechariah 7:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/7/2) — When they had sent unto the house of God Sherezer and Regemmelech, and their men, to pray before the LORD,