Ezra 2:28

By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.

Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.

A son was also born to Seth, and he named him Enosh. At that time men began to call on Yahweh’s name.

The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” He built an altar there to Yahweh, who had appeared to him.

He left from there to go to the mountain on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on Yahweh’s name.

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

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

the king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.

So Yahweh saved Israel that day; and the battle passed over by Beth Aven.

But Jeroboam caused an ambush to come about behind them; so they were before Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

The men of Bethel and Ai: one hundred twenty-three.

“Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don’t let Judah offend; and don’t come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, ‘As Yahweh lives.’

to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on Yahweh’s name.

then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God’s house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give a tenth to you.”

Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead.

So the present passed over before him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp.

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.”

Let’s arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.”

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

Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as it is today.

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.

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.

You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”

So Joshua arose, with all the warriors, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.

Joshua sent them out; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai on the west side of Ai; but Joshua stayed among the people that night.

He took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who didn’t go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.

For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;

Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

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

He sent it to those who were in Bethel, to those who were in Ramoth of the South, to those who were in Jattir,

He set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed, and enlarge my border! May your hand be with me, and may you keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” God granted him that which he requested.

The children of Nebo, fifty-two.

Of the sons of Nebo: Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Iddo, and Joel, Benaiah.

The men of the other Nebo: fifty-two.

He takes the wise in their own craftiness; the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

Then I called on Yahweh’s name: “Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul.”

Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

for by wise guidance you wage your war; and victory is in many advisors.

He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.

“Blow the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah! Sound a battle cry at Beth Aven, behind you, Benjamin!

The inhabitants of Samaria will be in terror for the calves of Beth Aven; for its people will mourn over it, Along with its priests who rejoiced over it, for its glory, because it has departed from it.

It will happen that whoever will call on Yahweh’s name shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

to the assembly of God which is at Corinth—those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,