Where was Bethel?

House of God. (1. ) A place in Central Palestine, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz (Gen. 28:19). Modern identification: Khirbet el Qaryatein.

Bethel is represented in the local geography layer as Khirbet el Qaryatein. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in 1 Samuel 30:27 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 1 verse reference collected into the glossary index.