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	Bethel - New World Encyclopedia
		Bethel also housed the Ark of the Covenant during the period of the judges, when it was also a sacred place to offer sacrifices to God and receive oracles from God.
		Bethel was of particular importance in the period of the Judges.
		That Bethel was an important religious shrine for the Israelites during the period of the judges likely has a strong historical basis, and its importance to the northern Kingdom of Israel is undoubted.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/Bethel (1990 words)

	Bethel – FREE Bethel Information \| Encyclopedia.com: Facts, Pictures, Information!
		Bethel lost its preeminence as a Jewish shrine to Jerusalem; in 1 Kings, Jeroboam's attempt to establish Bethel as a rival religious capital failed.
		Bethel thereafter became increasingly associated with heathen worship—hence the denunciations by Amos and by Hosea, who called it Beth-aven [house of wickedness].
		After the division of Israel, Bethel was made the chief sanctuary of the northern kingdom (Israel) and was later the centre for the prophetic ministry of Amos.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-BethelBib.html (850 words)

	Bethel (Israel) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bethel has been identified by some with the ruins surrounding the Palestinian village of Beitin and by others with the modern Israeli settlement of Beit El.
		Bethel remained an abode of priests even after the northern kingdom of Israel was destroyed(2 Kings 17:28, 29).
		Bethel was also a town in the south of Judah (Josh.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bethel_(Israel) (444 words)

	Jeroboam I - New World Encyclopedia
		Map of Israel and Judah shows the location of Jeroboam's capital, Shechem, near the map's center, with Bethel near Israel's southern border, Shiloh slightly to its north, and Dan to the far north.
		The second Jeroboam is recognized as one of Israel's most effective kings, although his reign was characterized by affluence and corruption that was denounced by the prophets.
		The sanctuaries at Bethel and Dan, where the "golden calves" were enshrined, were old and recognized places of worship and pilgrimage.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /entry/Jeroboam_I (2542 words)

	Bethel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bethel (Israel) is a city in ancient Israel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem.
		Bethel was also a town in southern Judah (Joshua.
		A Bethel is the name given to the meeting place as well as the local group that meets in each city.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bethel (317 words)

	Ancient Days :: Locating Biblical Bethel :: by David Livingston
		Bethel was so strategically located on the border between Israel and Judah that it was there Jeroboam built his southern temple to the golden calf (I Kings 12: 25-33).
		Bethel was obviously at a road juncture and on the main trade route north and south.
		Bethel the village at the 12th milestone from Aelia on the right side going to Neapolis which was first called “Luza,” having been called this it was then cast as a lot into the tribe of Benjamin nearby Bethaun and Aggai, which Joshua fought, and killed their king.
	www.ancientdays.net /bethel14.htm (4622 words)

	Daily Bible Study - Bethel
		Bethel is located about 12 miles (19 kilometers) north of Jerusalem, west of Jericho and the Jordan River.
		Bethel was one of the seats of Samuel's circuit court of justice (1 Samuel 7:16) (see Samuel).
		After the Israelites were divided into 2 kingdoms upon the death of King Solomon (Israel in the north and Judah in the south), Bethel was included in the northern kingdom under King Jeroboam (see Kings of Israel and Judah).
	www.keyway.ca /htm2002/bethel.htm (467 words)

	Bethel - Walking in Their Sandals - location profile
		Bethel was very near the center of the land, a place Abraham and his descendants would often pass as they traveled the "Patriarch’s Highway" from Shechem to Hebron and Beersheba.
		It was at Bethel that Jacob camped on his flight from Esau, en route to Paddan-aram in the north.
		When the kingdom was divided, Jeroboam established a worship center at Bethel in an attempt to replace Jerusalem as the center of the worship of God and of civil administration.
	www.ancientsandals.com /overviews/bethel.htm (721 words)

	Bethel - International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
		Israel came to Bethel to consult the Divine oracle (Judges 20:18), and it became an important center of worship (1 Samuel 10:3).
		To Bethel came the man of God from Judah who pronounced doom against Jeroboam (1 Kings 13), and who, having been seduced from duty by an aged prophet in Bethel, was slain by a lion.
		Bethel shared in the downfall of Samaria wrought by the Assyrians; and according to an old tradition, Shalmaneser possessed himself of the golden calf (compare Jeremiah 48:13).
	www.studylight.org /enc/isb/view.cgi?number=T1447 (941 words)

	Bethel - Study Fourteen
		Israel Felt Secure in the Promises of God - The prophet's doom preaching seemed like utter nonsense to a people who had begun to think of themselves as God's pet in the household of nations.
		Israel Paid Little Attention to the Responsibilities Inherent in Its Destiny - The character of the age made it apparent to the prophet that the nation was seeking privileges apart from responsibility.
		Darkening sky in background - The prophet spoke to Israel during the age of decline - from the period of monarchy under Solomon through the Babylonian captivity in 586 BC.
	home.houston.rr.com /ddg/bethel/old14.htm (895 words)

	The Captivity and Deportation of Israel \| Bethel Church of God
		The prevailing view today is that the “Lost Ten Tribes of Israel” were mixed with the peoples in the land of their captivity and are, therefore, “cast away.” One thing is certain: They did not return to their homeland in Palestine, and even the majority of Jews never returned from the Babylonian captivity.
		The book of 2 Kings states that Israel was carried away to Halah, and in Habor, by the river Gozan in the cities of the Medes (2 Kings 17:6).
		It is Hannay’s view that the mass of the so-called Hebrew race consisted of Israelites, or house of Isaac, sometimes the house of Omri (Beth Omri).
	www.bethelcog.org /church/the-origin-of-our-western-heritage/the-captivity-and-deportation-of-israel (2711 words)

	The City of Bethel \| Classical Hebrew Blog
		Bethel gained a special status upon the division of the United Kingdom in the days of Jeroboam, and was one of the two major places of worship where the golden calves were placed (along with the northern city of Dan).
		Bethel was not destructed during the Assyrian attack against the Israelite kingdom, but it was conquered by the Judean king Josiah, who destroyed the cultic center as part of his religious reformation (circa 622 BCE).
		Bethel was resettled after the return of the Jews from the Babylonian exile and thrived throughout the Second Temple Period, and was probably still sparsely populated until the Byzantine period.
	www.classicalhebrewblog.com /2008/03/09/the-city-of-bethel (426 words)

	Ephraim
		Ephraim is often used in the prophets for the Northern Kingdom of Israel because of the leading place that the tribe of Ephraim exercised in it.
		Of the twelve sons of Israel, Levi did not receive a portion of the land but did have cities to dwell in; they were the priests and received tithes.
		When Israel is spoken of as coming back to their own land by Ezekiel, it is with a cleansing, a new heart and new spirit, not divided into two kingdoms but one nation with the sanctuary of the Lord in the midst of them.
	latter-rain.com /ltrain/ephraim.htm (1118 words)

	Ancient Sources: Mount Ephraim and Benjamin: 48. Luza, also Bethel - (Beitin) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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 words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
		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 altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.
		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 anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/mad/sources/sources048.html (2144 words)

	Bible Prophecy for the World Today/israel.htm
		So did he in Bethel, sacrifaceing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the high places which he had made.
		Finally "For the LORD shall smite Israel, as a reed is shaken in the water, and he shall root up Israel out of this good land, which he gave to their fathers, and shall scatter them beyond the river, because they have made their groves, provoking the LORD to anger.
		In 721B.C. the Assyrians attacked Israel and in 718 B.C., had conquered all of Israel (except for part of Dan which fled by ship to Ireland) and carried them off as slaves to the south shore of the Caspian sea.
	www3.sympatico.ca /bibleprophecy/WebPage2/israel.htm (1198 words)

	Bears and a Youth Gang
		The degeneration of Bethel began in the reign of the wicked king Jeroboam.
		Bethel in the time of Elisha was truly the focal point for the calf worship instituted by Jeroboam.
		But Bethel and Israel persisted in the flagrant disobedience; they continued to walk in their own ways; they worshiped according to the evil imaginations of their own hearts; they sank deeper into idolatry and immorality, until the cup of God's wrath was filled.
	home.hiwaay.net /~wgann/sermons/bears.htm (2113 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bethel
		In these passages the name of Bethel is used by anticipation, as it was given to the town by Jacob after his vision (Genesis 28:19).
		This continued until Israel was led captive to Assyria (IV K., x, 29) and was frequently denounced by the prophets Osee and Amos.
		The name "Bethel" is also read in Jos., xii, 16 and I K., xxx, 27; it is probably another name for Bethul (Joshua 19:4), a city of the tribe of Simeon, the site of which is uncertain.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/02532d.htm (459 words)

	An Introduction to Amos
		767-753 B.C. King of Judah is Uzziah (Azariah) (790-740) B. King of Israel is Jerobaom II (793-753) C. Within the period of the joint reigns of Uzziah and Jeroboam, possibly ca.
		Israel was fighting a defensive war against the armies of Syria and Ammon.
		Syria was unable to fight on two boarders.3 Israel and Judah restored their boarders to almost that of David and Solomon (cf.
	members.aol.com /naccbcandcpcs/amo.htm (294 words)

	Bethel Presbyterian Church
		PASSION WEEK EVENTS: As Bethel commemorated our Savior's death and resurrection, a communion service was held on Good Friday, March 21, and a special Easter Sunday worship service on March 24 which included special music from the Bethel Ensemble, the Bethel Adult Chorale, and the Children's Choir.
		At Bethel, this committee was formed to plan social activities to deepen that fellowship with one another.
		Bethel's Dorcas Society consists of all the women of our church, and is named after a disciple from the town of Joppa who was always doing good and helping the poor.
	www.bethelpres.com (1096 words)

	Amos 5:5 (King James Version) :: Forerunner Commentary :: Bible Tools
		Israel's first experience at Gilgal occurs when the people cross into the Promised Land under Joshua: "Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho" (Joshua 4:19).
		With the Bethel illustration, Amos points out that they were mistaken in believing that God was in this place, and therefore their hope for life was a hollow one.
		Gilgal's significance sprang from Israel's entrance into Canaan after her forty years in the wilderness and the circumcision of her men there (Joshua 5:1-12).
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Bible.show/sVerseID/22429/eVerseID/22429 (3501 words)

	ANE History: Israel and the Arameans
		The rapid growth of this powerful hostile kingdom on the northern borders of Israel, which at times threatened to extinguish its national life, was made possible largely by the breakup of the United Monarchy under Solomon's son and successor, the hapless Rehoboam.
		The kingdoms of Israel and Judah, on the other hand, were so involved in mutual hostilities that they had little time to devote to the formidable threat of an unfriendly and increasingly powerful state forming so dangerously near at hand.
		In courting the favor of Damascus against Israel, he gave an unparalleled opportunity for aggrandizement to what was in reality a common threat and placed both Hebrew kingdoms in the position which was actually that of semi-subservience to a mutual foe.
	www.theology.edu /lec18.htm (3803 words)

	Year A - Revised Common Lectionary
		This lead to the downfall of Israel and the loss of the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom forever in 721 BCE.
		Bethel was set up by Jeroboam 1 and it is interesting that Jeroboam 11 (the king at the time of Amos) is not given his full status.
		Repentance is not demanded as a condition for God to change and the second chance given to Israel is by the pure grace of God.
	www.oldtestamentlectionary.unitingchurch.org.au /2007/July/Pent7Amos7_07.htm (1865 words)

	Go to Bethel and Sin
		But as we already noted, Bethel was a church serving politicians, a church where people were engaging in religious prostitution and worshiping a shame, not a savior.
		Don’t prophesy anymore at Bethel, because this is the king’s sanctuary and the temple of the kingdom” (Amos 7:12-13).
		Bethel churches are all churches where God is not worshiped and his word is not preached, all churches that merely entertain people and minister to their felt needs, all churches that teach Jesus is just a man, or that he can be Savior without also being Lord.
	www.gracevalley.org /sermon_trans/2007/Go_to_Bethel_and_Sin.html (4265 words)

	bethel
		Apparently Bethel was recaptured by the Canaanites early in the period, but it was later recaptured by the tribe of Ephraim who retained it from then on.
		Originally the road from Bethel to Jericho marked the border between the territories of Benjamin and Ephraim but afterward it was the border between the northern and southern kingdoms.
		In Muslim tradition, Bethel is known as the "Assembly of the Prophets," the place where the prophet Mohammed stopped on his pilgrimage to Jersualem and led the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Jacob and Isaac in prayer.
	www.ourfatherlutheran.net /biblehomelands/palestine/bethel.htm (1828 words)

	Proper 10
		Israel is evaluated like a wall, and like a wall that is not vertical Israel will be torn down.
		Amaziah, the priest of Bethel: Dan and Bethel were the two sanctuaries of the northern kingdom (1 Kings 12:29-30).
		Not even of Israel is it said that she was chosen "before the foundation of the world." Jesus is loved by God, before the foundation of the world (John 17:24).
	sio.midco.net /danelson9/yearb/proper10.htm (2217 words)

	Jephthah \| Bethel Church of God
		And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
		God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they smote them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
		What this means is that the marginal rendering could very well be correct, and means the daughters of Israel went annually to “talk to,” or “talk with” the daughter of Jephthah—clearly showing that she had not been sacrificed as a burnt offering.
	www.bethelcog.org /church/great-men-of-the-old-testament/jephthah (2710 words)

	Israel & the Church - Bethel Church
		Israel is called the apple [pupil] of God’s eye.
		Israel, or at the time Palestine, is the place that God chose for Messiah to come the first time to instruct His chosen people, and the world in the principles of His kingdom.
		One major part of the misinformation is the boundaries of Israel.
	www.betheleast.org /content/view/33/9 (1137 words)

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