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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Abraham Estblishes an Altar At Genesis 12:8

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Abraham Estblishes an Altar At Genesis 13:3, 4

From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched, / to the site where he had built the altar. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Allotted to Benjamin Joshua 18:13, 22

From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon. / Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: And Builds an Altar At Genesis 35:1–15

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.” / So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments. / Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Conquered by Joshua Joshua 8:17

Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city wide open while they pursued Israel.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Conquered by Joshua Joshua 12:16

the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Conquered by the Household of Joseph Judges 1:22–26

The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them. / They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz), / and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Deborah Dies At Genesis 35:8

Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Idolatry At Jeremiah 48:13

Then Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, just as the house of Israel was ashamed when they trusted in Bethel.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Idolatry At Amos 4:4

“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Jeroboam Institutes Idolatrous Worship At 1 Kings 12:25–33

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim and lived there. And from there he went out and built Penuel. / Jeroboam said in his heart, “Now the kingdom might revert to the house of David. / If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Jeroboam Institutes Idolatrous Worship At 2 Kings 10:29

but he did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam son of Nebat had caused Israel to commit—the worship of the golden calves at Bethel and Dan.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: People of, Return from Babylon Ezra 2:28

the men of Bethel and Ai, 223;

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: People of, Return from Babylon Nehemiah 7:32

the men of Bethel and Ai, 123;

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Prophecies Against Amos 5:5

Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Prophecies Against the Idolatrous Altars At 1 Kings 13:1–6, 32

Suddenly, as Jeroboam was standing beside the altar to burn incense, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the LORD. / And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’” / That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Prophecies Against the Idolatrous Altars At 2 Kings 23:4, 15–20

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel. / He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole. / On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Prophecies Against the Idolatrous Altars At Amos 3:14

On the day I punish Israel for their transgressions, I will visit destruction on the altars of Bethel; the horns of the altar will be cut off, and they will fall to the ground.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Shalmanezer Sends a Priest To 2 Kings 17:27, 28

Then the king of Assyria commanded: “Send back one of the priests you carried off from Samaria, and have him go back to live there and teach the requirements of the God of the land.” / Thus one of the priests they had carried away came and lived in Bethel, and he began to teach them how they should worship the LORD.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Tabernacle At, and Called House of God Judges 20:18, 31

The Israelites set out, went up to Bethel, and inquired of God, “Who of us shall go up first to fight against the Benjamites?” “Judah will be first,” the LORD replied. / The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: Tabernacle At, and Called House of God Judges 21:2

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: The Ancient City Adjacent To, and Finally Embraced In, Was Called Luz Joshua 18:13

From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: The Ancient City Adjacent To, and Finally Embraced In, Was Called Luz Judges 1:23–26

They sent spies to Bethel (formerly known as Luz), / and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.” / So the man showed them the entrance to the city, and they put the city to the sword but released that man and all his family.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: The Place where Jacob Saw the Vision of the Ladder Genesis 28:10–22

Meanwhile Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran. / On reaching a certain place, he spent the night there because the sun had set. And taking one of the stones from that place, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. / And Jacob had a dream about a ladder that rested on the earth with its top reaching up to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down the ladder.

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: The Place where Jacob Saw the Vision of the Ladder Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar and made a solemn vow to Me. Now get up and leave this land at once, and return to your native land.’”

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: The Place where Jacob Saw the Vision of the Ladder Hosea 12:4

Yes, he struggled with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought His favor; he found Him at Bethel and spoke with Him there—

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: The School of Prophets At 2 Kings 2:3

Then the sons of the prophets at Bethel came out to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”

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Beth-El: A City North of Jerusalem: The Young Men of, Mock Elisha 2 Kings 2:23, 24

From there, Elisha went up to Bethel, and as he was walking up the road, a group of boys came out of the city and jeered at him, chanting, “Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!” / Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: And Beth-Lehem-Judah Judges 17:7–9

And there was a young Levite from Bethlehem in Judah who had been residing within the clan of Judah. / This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim. / “Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: And Beth-Lehem-Judah Judges 19:1, 18

Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. / The Levite replied, “We are traveling from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote hill country of Ephraim, where I am from. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and now I am going to the house of the LORD; but no one has taken me into his home,

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: And Beth-Lehem-Judah Ruth 1:1

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: And Beth-Lehem-Judah 1 Samuel 17:12

Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Birthplace of Jesus Micah 5:2

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Birthplace of Jesus Matthew 2:1

After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem,

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Birthplace of Jesus Luke 2:4, 15

So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David. / When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Called Ephratah and Ephrath Genesis 48:7

Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Called Ephratah and Ephrath Psalm 132:6

We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Called Ephratah and Ephrath Micah 5:2

But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are small among the clans of Judah, out of you will come forth for Me One to be ruler over Israel—One whose origins are of old, from the days of eternity.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Herod Murders the Infants of Matthew 2:16–18

When Herod saw that he had been outwitted by the Magi, he was filled with rage. Sending orders, he put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity who were two years old and under, according to the time he had learned from the Magi. / Then what was spoken through the prophet Jeremiah was fulfilled: / “A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Jeroboam Converts It Into a Military Stronghold 2 Chronicles 11:6

He built up Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Rachel Dies and is Buried At Genesis 35:16, 19

Later, they set out from Bethel, and while they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult. / So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath (that is, Bethlehem).

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Rachel Dies and is Buried At Genesis 48:7

Now as for me, when I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way in the land of Canaan, some distance from Ephrath. So I buried her there beside the road to Ephrath” (that is, Bethlehem).

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: Taken and Held by the Philistines 2 Samuel 23:14–16

At that time David was in the stronghold, and the garrison of the Philistines was at Bethlehem. / David longed for water and said, “Oh, that someone would get me a drink of water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem!” / So the three mighty men broke through the Philistine camp, drew water from the well near the gate of Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it; instead, he poured it out to the LORD,

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Boaz Ruth 1:1, 19

In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab. / So Naomi and Ruth traveled until they came to Bethlehem. When they entered Bethlehem, the whole city was stirred because of them, and the women of the city exclaimed, “Can this be Naomi?”

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Boaz Ruth 2:4

Just then Boaz arrived from Bethlehem and said to the harvesters, “The LORD be with you.” “The LORD bless you,” they replied.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Boaz Ruth 4:1

Meanwhile, Boaz went to the gate and sat down there. Soon the kinsman-redeemer of whom he had spoken came along, and Boaz said, “Come over here, my friend, and sit down.” So he went over and sat down.

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Joseph Matthew 2:5, 6

“In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this is what the prophet has written: / ‘But you, Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah, for out of you will come a ruler who will be the shepherd of My people Israel.’”

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Bethlehem: A City Southwest of Jerusalem: The City of Joseph Luke 2:4

So Joseph also went up from Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David called Bethlehem, since he was from the house and line of David.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Corner Gate 2 Chronicles 26:9

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Dung Gate Nehemiah 3:14

The Dung Gate was repaired by Malchijah son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem. He rebuilt it and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Dung Gate Nehemiah 12:31

Then I brought the leaders of Judah up on the wall, and I appointed two great thanksgiving choirs. One was to proceed along the top of the wall to the right, toward the Dung Gate.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Fish Gate 2 Chronicles 33:14

After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Fish Gate Nehemiah 3:3

The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Gate of Ephraim Nehemiah 12:39

over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Gate of Miphkad Nehemiah 3:31

Next to him, Malchijah, one of the goldsmiths, made repairs as far as the house of the temple servants and the merchants, opposite the Inspection Gate, and as far as the upper room above the corner.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Gate of the Fountain Nehemiah 3:15

The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah. He rebuilt it, roofed it, and installed its doors, bolts, and bars. He also repaired the wall of the Pool of Shelah near the king’s garden, as far as the stairs that descend from the City of David.

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Gates of Jerusalem: High Gate of Benjamin Jeremiah 20:2

he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

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Gates of Jerusalem: High Gate of Benjamin Jeremiah 37:13

But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”

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Gates of Jerusalem: Horse Gate 2 Chronicles 23:15

So they seized Athaliah as she reached the entrance of the Horse Gate to the palace grounds, and there they put her to death.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Horse Gate Nehemiah 3:28

Above the Horse Gate, each of the priests made repairs in front of his own house.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Old Gate Nehemiah 3:6

The Jeshanah Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah. They laid its beams and installed its doors, bolts, and bars.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Old Gate Nehemiah 12:39

over the Gate of Ephraim, the Jeshanah Gate, the Fish Gate, the Tower of Hananel, and the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Sheep Gate. And they stopped at the Gate of the Guard.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Sheep Gate Nehemiah 3:1

At the Sheep Gate, Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests began rebuilding. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated the wall.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Sheep Gate John 5:2

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool with five covered colonnades, which in Hebrew is called Bethesda.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Valley Gate 2 Chronicles 26:9

Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, the Valley Gate, and the angle in the wall, and he fortified them.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Valley Gate Nehemiah 2:13

So I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Well of the Serpent and the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and the gates that had been destroyed by fire.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Water Gate Nehemiah 3:26

and the temple servants living on the hill of Ophel made repairs opposite the Water Gate toward the east and the tower that juts out.

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Gates of Jerusalem: Water Gate Nehemiah 8:3

So Ezra read it aloud from daybreak until noon as he faced the square before the Water Gate, in front of the men and women and those who could understand. And all the people listened attentively to the Book of the Law.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: A City of Refuge Joshua 20:7

So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: A City of Refuge Joshua 21:11, 13

They gave them Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), with its surrounding pasturelands, in the hill country of Judah. (Arba was the father of Anak.) / So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Abraham Lived There and Sarah Died At Genesis 23:2

She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Absalom Made King At 2 Samuel 15:9, 10

“Go in peace,” said the king. So Absalom got up and went to Hebron. / Then Absalom sent spies throughout the tribes of Israel with this message: “When you hear the sound of the horn, you are to say, ‘Absalom reigns in Hebron!’”

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Arba Genesis 35:27

Jacob returned to his father Isaac at Mamre, near Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had stayed.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Arba Joshua 15:13

According to the LORD’s command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Called Kirjath-Arba Genesis 23:2

She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Conquest of, by Caleb Joshua 14:6–15

Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me. / I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report. / Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Conquest of, by Caleb Judges 1:10, 20

Judah also marched against the Canaanites who were living in Hebron (formerly known as Kiriath-arba), and they struck down Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. / Just as Moses had promised, Judah gave Hebron to Caleb, who drove out the descendants of the three sons of Anak.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: David Crowned King of Israel At 2 Samuel 5:1–5

Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood. / Even in times past, while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And to you the LORD said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’” / So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: David Crowned King of Judah At 2 Samuel 2:1–11

Some time later, David inquired of the LORD, “Should I go up to one of the towns of Judah?” “Go up,” the LORD answered. Then David asked, “Where should I go?” “To Hebron,” replied the LORD. / So David went there with his two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail the widow of Nabal of Carmel. / David also took the men who were with him, each with his household, and they settled in the towns near Hebron.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: David Crowned King of Judah At 2 Samuel 3:1

Now the war between the house of Saul and the house of David was protracted. And David grew stronger and stronger, while the house of Saul grew weaker and weaker.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Descendants of the Anakim Live At Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Descendants of the Anakim Live At Joshua 11:21

At that time Joshua proceeded to eliminate the Anakim from the hill country of Hebron, Debir, and Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction, along with their cities.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Fortified 2 Chronicles 11:10

Zorah, Aijalon, and Hebron, the fortified cities in Judah and Benjamin.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Jews of the Babylonian Captivity Lived At Nehemiah 11:25

As for the villages with their fields, some of the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba, Dibon, Jekabzeel, and their villages;

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: Pool of 2 Samuel 4:12

So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: The Burial Place of Abner 2 Samuel 3:32

When they buried Abner in Hebron, the king wept aloud at Abner’s tomb, and all the people wept.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: The Burial Place of Ish-Bosheth 2 Samuel 4:12

So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: The Burial Place of Sarah Genesis 23:2

She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: The Conspirators Against Ish-Bosheth Hanged At 2 Samuel 4:12

So David commanded his young men, and they killed Rechab and Baanah. They cut off their hands and feet and hung their bodies by the pool in Hebron, but they took the head of Ish-bosheth and buried it in Abner’s tomb in Hebron.

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Hebron: A City of the Tribe of Judah, South of Jerusalem: when Built Numbers 13:22

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, dwelled. It had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

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Imports of Jerusalem: Gold, Ivory, Apes, Peacocks 2 Chronicles 9:21

For the king had the ships of Tarshish that went with Hiram’s servants, and once every three years the ships of Tarshish would arrive bearing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

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Imports of Jerusalem: Horses, Chariots, and Linen 1 Kings 10:28, 29

Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue. / A chariot could be imported from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty. Likewise, they exported them to all the kings of the Hittites and to the kings of Aram.

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Imports of Jerusalem: Horses, Chariots, and Linen 2 Chronicles 1:16

Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.

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Jerusalem: Psalm 122:3–5

Jerusalem is built up as a city united together, / where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD. / For there the thrones of judgment stand, the thrones of the house of David.

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Jerusalem: Luke 2:41

Every year His parents went to Jerusalem for the Feast of the Passover.

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Jerusalem: John 4:20

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

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Jerusalem: John 5:1

Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem: John 7:1–14

After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him. / However, the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles was near. / So Jesus’ brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea, so that Your disciples there may see the works You are doing.

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Jerusalem: John 12:20

Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast.

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Jerusalem: Acts 18:21

But as he left, he said, “I will come back to you if God is willing.” And he set sail from Ephesus.

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