Bethlehem

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Judges 17:7 OT

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

• Judges 19:18 OT

  He said to him, “We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim. I am from there, and I went to Bethlehem Judah. I am going to Yahweh’s house; and there is no one who has taken me into his house.

• Genesis 48:7 OT

  As for me, when I came from Paddan, Rachel died beside me in the land of Canaan on the way, when there was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and I buried her there on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).”

• Psalms 132:6 OT

  Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the field of Jaar:

• Micah 5:2 OT

  But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, being small among the clans of Judah, out of you one will come out to me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings out are from of old, from ancient times.

• Judges 17:7-9 OT

  There was a young man out of Bethlehem Judah, of the family of Judah, who was a Levite; and he lived there. The man departed out of the city, out of Bethlehem Judah, to live where he could find a place, and he came to the hill country of…

• Judges 19:1 OT

  In those days, when there was no king in Israel, there was a certain Levite living on the farther side of the hill country of Ephraim, who took for himself a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.

• Ruth 1:1 OT

  In the days when the judges judged, there was a famine in the land. A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons.

• 1 Samuel 17:12 OT

  Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.

• Genesis 35:16 OT

  They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.

• Genesis 35:19 OT

  Rachel died, and was buried on the way to Ephrath (also called Bethlehem).

• Ruth 1:19 OT

  So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, “Is this Naomi?”

• Ruth 2:4 OT

  Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, “May Yahweh be with you.” They answered him, “May Yahweh bless you.”

• Ruth 4:1-22 OT

  Now Boaz went up to the gate and sat down there. Behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by. Boaz said to him, “Come over here, friend, and sit down!” He came over, and sat down. Boaz took ten men of the elders of the city, and…

• 2 Samuel 23:14-16 OT

  David was then in the stronghold; and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem. David longed, and said, “Oh that someone would give me water to drink from the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!” The three mighty men…

• 2 Chronicles 11:6 OT

  He built Bethlehem, Etam, Tekoa,

• Matthew 2:5 NT

  They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,

• Matthew 2:6 NT

  ‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah: for out of you shall come a governor, who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”

• Luke 2:4 NT

  Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to David’s city, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

• Matthew 2:1-23 NT

  Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying, “Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”…

• Luke 2:15 NT

  When the angels went away from them into the sky, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem, now, and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

• Matthew 2:16-18 NT

  Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked by the wise men, was exceedingly angry, and sent out, and killed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in all the surrounding countryside, from two years old and under, according to the…

• Joshua 19:15 OT

  Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

• Judges 12:10 OT

  Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem.