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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Judg 1:22
    85%

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

  • Judg 1:24-26
    3 verses
    83%

    24The 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."

    25He 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.

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

  • Gen 28:19
    79%

    19He 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%

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

    7He 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%

    1The 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.

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

  • Josh 7:2
    71%

    2Joshua 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.

  • Gen 48:3
    71%

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

  • Josh 18:13
    70%

    13The 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%

    1Joshua 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.

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

  • Josh 18:22
    68%

    22Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

  • Gen 46:28
    68%

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

  • Deut 1:22
    68%

    22You 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."

  • Gen 37:17
    68%

    17The 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.

  • Judg 19:13-17
    5 verses
    67%

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

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

    15They 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.

    16Behold, 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.

    17He 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?"

  • Gen 37:14
    67%

    14He 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.

  • Gen 42:14
    67%

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

  • 2 Kgs 23:17
    67%

    17Then 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."

  • Amos 5:6
    67%

    6Seek 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.

  • Judg 18:2
    67%

    2The 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.

  • Gen 35:15
    67%

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

  • Judg 1:35
    67%

    35but 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.

  • Gen 13:3
    67%

    3He 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,

  • Deut 1:24
    66%

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

  • Judg 17:7
    66%

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

  • Gen 43:17
    66%

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

  • Gen 35:1
    66%

    1God 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."

  • Gen 42:9
    66%

    9Joseph 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."