Yosua 7:2

7:2 Joshua sent men from Jericho ¹  to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel ² ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Yosua 8:9

8:9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place ³  west of Ai, between Bethel ⁴  and Ai. ⁵  Joshua spent that night with the army. ⁶ 

Yosua 18:13

18:13 It then crossed from there to Luz, to the slope of Luz to the south (that is, Bethel), ⁷  and descended to Ataroth Addar located on the hill that is south of lower Beth Horon.

Hakim-hakim 1:23

1:23 When the men of Joseph spied out Bethel (it used to be called Luz),

Hakim-hakim 4:5

4:5 She would sit ⁸  under the Date Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel ⁹  in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites would come up to her to have their disputes settled. ¹⁰ 

Hakim-hakim 20:18

20:18 The Israelites went up to Bethel ¹¹  and asked God, ¹²  “Who should lead the charge against the Benjaminites?” ¹³  The Lord said, “Judah should lead.”

Hakim-hakim 21:2

21:2 So the people came to Bethel ¹⁴  and sat there before God until evening, weeping loudly and uncontrollably. ¹⁵ 

Nehemia 11:31

11:31 Some of the descendants of ¹⁶  Benjamin settled in Geba, ¹⁷  Micmash, Aija, Bethel ¹⁸  and its villages,

[7:2]  ¹ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[7:2]  ² map For the location of Bethel see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[8:9]  ³ tn Or “the place of ambush.”

[8:9]  ⁴ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[8:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “and they stayed between Bethel and Ai, west of Ai.”

[8:9]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the midst of the people.”

[18:13]  ⁷ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:5]  ⁸ tn That is, “consider legal disputes.”

[4:5]  ⁹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[4:5]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “for judgment.”

[20:18]  ¹¹ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[20:18]  ¹² tn Heb “They arose and went up to Bethel and asked God, and the Israelites said.”

[20:18]  ¹³ tn Heb “Who should go up for us first for battle against the sons of Benjamin?”

[21:2]  ¹⁴ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.

[21:2]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “and they lifted up their voice[s] and wept with great weeping.” Both the cognate accusative בְּכִי (bekhi, “weeping”) and the attributive adjective גָדוֹל (gadol, “great”) emphasize their degree of sorrow.

[11:31]  ¹⁶ tc The translation reads with a few medieval Hebrew MSS and the Syriac Peshitta וּמִבְּנֵי (umibbÿney, “and some of the descendants of”; cf. NLT) rather than the MT reading וּבְנֵי (uvÿne, “and the sons of”).

[11:31]  ¹⁷ tc Heb “from Geba.” It is preferable to delete the preposition “from” read by the MT.

[11:31]  ¹⁸ map For location see Map4 G4; Map5 C1; Map6 E3; Map7 D1; Map8 G3.