Judges 1:23

World English Bible (2000)

The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 28:19 : 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
  • Gen 35:6 : 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
  • Gen 48:3 : 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
  • Josh 2:1 : 1 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
  • Josh 7:2 : 2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.
  • Judg 18:2 : 2 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

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  • 22 The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them.

  • Judg 1:24-26
    3 verses
    83%

    24 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you."

    25 He showed them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.

    26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

  • 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

  • Gen 35:6-7
    2 verses
    76%

    6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

    7 He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

  • Josh 16:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    1 The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.

    2 It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

  • 2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.

  • 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

  • 13 The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.

  • Josh 2:1-2
    2 verses
    69%

    1 Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, including Jericho." They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.

    2 The king of Jericho was told, "Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land."

  • 22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

  • 28 He sent Judah before him to Joseph, to show the way before him to Goshen, and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • 22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."

  • 17 The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.

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    13 He said to his servant, "Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah."

    14 So they passed on and went their way; and the sun went down on them near to Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin.

    15 They turned aside there, to go in to lodge in Gibeah: and he went in, and sat him down in the street of the city; for there was no man who took them into his house to lodge.

    16 Behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at evening: now the man was of the hill country of Ephraim, and he lived in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

    17 He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, "Where are you going? Where did you come from?"

  • 14 He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

  • 14 Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies!'

  • 17 Then he said, "What monument is that which I see?" The men of the city told him, "It is the tomb of the man of God, who came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that you have done against the altar of Bethel."

  • 6 Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

  • 2 The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, "Go, explore the land!" They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.

  • 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

  • 35 but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.

  • 3 He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

  • 24 and they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the valley of Eshcol, and spied it out.

  • 7 There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there.

  • 17 The man did as Joseph commanded, and the man brought the men to Joseph's house.

  • 1 God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

  • 9 Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."