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