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BETHEL (Heb. " House of God ")

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 828 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BETHEL (Heb. " House of God ") , originally called Luz, an ancient city of Palestine, on the N.W. border of the tribe of Benjamin, 11 m. N. of Jerusalem and nearly 2900 ft. above sea-level. From very early times it was a holy
place
 , a circumstance probably due primarily to a very extraordinary group of boulders and
rock
 -outcrops north of the town. Abraham recognized its sanctity (Gen. xii. 8); Jacob, in ignorance, slept in the sacred enclosure and was granted a vision (" Jacob's ladder," Gen. xxviii). For a while the ark seems to have been deposited here (Judg. xx. 27), and it was a
place
  for consulting the oracle (Judg. xx. 18). At the secession of the northern kingdom under jeroboam, Bethel became a royal residence and a national shrine (r Kings xii. 29-31, Amos vii. 13), for which its position at the junction of
main
  roads from N. to S. and E. to W. well fitted it. It was taken from Jeroboam by Abijah, king of Judah (2 Chr. xiii. 19). It seems to have continued to flourish down into the
Christian
  era; remains of its ecclesiastical buildings still exist. The present
village
 , which bears the name of Beitin, occupies about three or four acres, and has a
population
  of 2000.


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