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    One other person, place or group in the registry answers to the name Bethel. Every Bethel in the Bible

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    Bethel

    בֵּֽיתְ־אֵל

    Bethel was a town in Judah that received spoils from David's victory over the Amalekites. (1Sa.30.27)

    Where the story of Bethel happens Where the gazetteer locates Bethel, framed to them: Bethel. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Bethel
    Where the gazetteer locates Bethel
    verses
    3
    first named
    Joshua 19:4
    last named
    1 Samuel 30:27
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    31.34°N · 35.12°E
    settlement31.34°N · 35.12°E

    Khirbet el Qaryatein (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Bethel in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    This Bethel was a town in the southern region of Judah, distinct from the more famous Bethel in the north where Jacob had his vision. It is listed among the cities allocated to the tribe of Simeon within Judah's territory (Joshua 19:4). The same settlement appears in the genealogical records of 1Ch.4.30 as part of Simeon's territory.

    The town gained some prominence during David's early career when he sent some of the spoils from his victory over the Amalekites to its elders (1Sa.30.27). This gesture was part of David's political strategy of building alliances with the towns of Judah.

    Probably corresponds to the settlement called Bethuel in some passages, though its exact modern location remains uncertain.

    Note: Care must be taken not to confuse this southern Bethel with the more prominent northern city of the same name where significant events in the lives of Abraham, Jacob, and Jeroboam took place. The references provided relate specifically to this southern settlement.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    and 3 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    The pattern

    Where Bethel is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA1 VERSE53 books and 822 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 3 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA1 VERSE53 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Bethel is named in 3 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 63 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 3 books.

    1. Joshua1 verse

      19:4

    2. 1 Samuel1 verse

      30:27

    3. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      4:30

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

    Sources

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