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Bethlehem

The town of David in Judah, and the birthplace of Jesus.

31.7054° N · 35.2024° E
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Scripture references

  1. Genesis 35:19 And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
  2. Genesis 48:7 And as for me, when I came from Padan, Rachel died by me in the land of Canaan, in the way, when yet there was but a little way to come vnto Ephrath: and I buried her there in the way of Ephrath, the same is Bethlehem.
  3. Joshua 19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelue cities with their villages.
  4. Judges 12:8 ¶ And after him Ibzan of Bethlehem iudged Israel.
  5. Judges 12:10 Then died Ibzan, and was buried at Bethlehem.
  6. Judges 17:7 ¶ And there was a young man out of Bethlehem Iudah, of the family of Iudah, who was a Leuite, and he soiourned there.
  7. Judges 17:8 And the man departed out of the citie from Bethlehem Iudah, to soiourne where he could finde a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he iourneyed.
  8. Judges 17:9 And Micah said vnto him, Whence commest thou? And he said vnto him, I am a Leuite, of Bethlehem Iudah, and I goe to soiourne where I may finde a place.
  9. Judges 19:1 And it came to passe in those dayes, when there was no King in Israel, that there was a certaine Leuite soiourning on the side of mount Ephraim, who tooke to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Iudah.
  10. Judges 19:2 And his concubine played the whore against him, and went away from him vnto her fathers house to Bethlehem Iudah, and was there foure whole moneths.
  11. Judges 19:18 And he said vnto him, We are passing from Bethlehem Iudah, toward the side of mount Ephraim, from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehem Iudah, but I am now going to the house of the LORD, and there is no man that receiueth me to house.
  12. Ruth 1:1 Nowe it came to passe in the dayes when þ Iudges ruled, that there was a famine in the land: and a certaine man of Bethlehem Iudah, went to soiourne in the countrey of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sonnes.
  13. Ruth 1:2 And the name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife, Naomi, and the name of his two sonnes, Mahlon, and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Iudah: and they came into the countrey of Moab, and continued there.
  14. Ruth 1:19 ¶ So they two went vntill they came to Bethlehem: And it came to passe when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the citie was mooued about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?
  15. Ruth 1:22 So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitesse her daughter in law with her, which returned out of the countrey of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem, in the beginning of barley haruest.
  16. Ruth 2:4 ¶ And behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said vnto the reapers, The LORD bee with you; and they answered him, The LORD blesse thee.
  17. Ruth 4:11 And all the people that were in the gate, and the Elders said, Wee are witnesses: The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house, like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and bee famous in Bethlehem.
  18. 1 Samuel 16:4 And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem: and the elders of the towne trembled at his comming, and said, Commest thou peaceably?
  19. 1 Samuel 17:12 ¶ Now Dauid was the sonne of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Iudah, whose name was Iesse, and hee had eight sonnes: and the man went among men for an old man in the dayes of Saul.
  20. 1 Samuel 17:15 But Dauid went, and returned from Saul, to feed his fathers sheepe at Bethlehem.
  21. 1 Samuel 20:6 If thy father at all misse me, then say, Dauid earnestly asked leaue of me that he might runne to Bethlehem his citie: for there is a yeerely sacrifice there for all the family.
  22. 1 Samuel 20:28 And Ionathan answered Saul, Dauid earnestly asked leaue of me, to goe to Bethlehem.
  23. 2 Samuel 2:32 ¶ And they tooke vp Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father which was in Bethlehem: and Ioab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at breake of day.
  24. 2 Samuel 23:14 And Dauid was then in an holde, and the garison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
  25. 2 Samuel 23:15 And Dauid longed, and said, Oh that one would giue mee drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem which is by the gate.
  26. 2 Samuel 23:16 And the three mightie men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the Well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and tooke it, and brought it to Dauid: neuerthelesse he would not drinke thereof, but powred it out vnto the LORD.
  27. 2 Samuel 23:24 Asahel the brother of Ioab was one of the thirtie: Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Bethlehem,
  28. 1 Chronicles 2:51 Salma the father of Bethlehem: Hareph the father of Beth-gader.
  29. 1 Chronicles 2:54 The sonnes of Salmah: Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Ioab, and halfe of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
  30. 1 Chronicles 4:4 And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sonnes of Hur, the first borne of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
  31. 1 Chronicles 11:16 And Dauid was then in the hold, and the Philistines garison was then at Bethlehem.
  32. 1 Chronicles 11:17 And Dauid longed and said, Oh that one would giue me drinke of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate.
  33. 1 Chronicles 11:18 And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and tooke it and brought it to Dauid. But Dauid would not drink of it, but powred it out to the LORD,
  34. 1 Chronicles 11:26 ¶ Also the valiant men of the armies were Asahel the brother of Ioab, Elhanan the sonne of Dodo of Bethlehem.
  35. 2 Chronicles 11:6 He built euen Bethlehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,
  36. Ezra 2:21 The children of Bethlehem, an hundred twentie and three.
  37. Nehemiah 7:26 The men of Bethlehem, and Netophah, an hundred, fourescore and eight.
  38. Jeremiah 41:17 And they departed and dwelt in the habitation of Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to goe to enter into Egypt,
  39. Matthew 2:1 Now when Iesus was borne in Bethlehem of Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the king, behold, there came Wise men from the East to Hierusalem,
  40. Matthew 2:5 And they said vnto him, In Bethlehem of Iudea: For thus it is written by the Prophet;
  41. Matthew 2:6 And thou Bethlehem in the land of Iuda, art not the least among the Princes of Iuda: for out of thee shall come a Gouernour, that shall rule my people Israel.
  42. Matthew 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Goe, and search diligently for the yong child, and when ye haue found him, bring me word againe, that I may come and worship him also.
  43. Matthew 2:16 ¶ Then Herode, when hee saw that hee was mocked of the Wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent foorth, and slewe all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two yeeres olde and vnder, according to the time, which he had diligently enquired of the Wise men.
  44. Luke 2:4 And Ioseph also wēt vp frō Galilee, out of the citie of Nazareth, into Iudea, vnto the citie of Dauid, which is called Bethlehem, (because he was of the house and linage of Dauid,)
  45. Luke 2:15 And it came to passe, as the Angels were gone away from them into heauen, the shepheards said one to another, Let vs now goe euen vnto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to passe, which the Lord hath made knowen vnto vs.
  46. John 7:42 Hath not the Scripture saide, that Christ commeth of the seede of Dauid, and out of the towne of Bethlehem, where Dauid was?

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