Genesis 28:19
19He called the name of that place aBethel, ▼▼ Bethel means the house of God
but the name of the city was Luz at the first. Judges 19:18
18And he said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, from which I come. I went to Bethlehem in Judah, and I am going cto the house of the Lord, ▼▼Septuagint my home; compare verse 29
ebut no one has taken me into his house. Judges 20:27
27And the people of Israel inquired of the Lord f(for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,Judges 21:12
12And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at gShiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.Judges 21:19
19So they said, “Behold, there is the yearly feast of the Lord at Shiloh, which is north of Bethel, on the east of hthe highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and south of Lebonah.”Judges 21:21
21and watch. If the daughters of Shiloh come out to idance in the dances, then come out of the vineyards and snatch each man his wife from the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.
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