The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
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The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (The name of the city before that was Luz.)
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And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)
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And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el — now the name of the city beforetime was Luz.
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Passages linked to Judges 1:23 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 28:19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
- Genesis 48:3 Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
- Genesis 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.
- Joshua 2:1 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 7:2 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.
- Judges 18:2 The children of Dan sent five men of their family from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to search it. They said to them, “Go, explore the land!” They came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jdg 1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to…
Jdg 1:23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel. (Now the name of the city before [was] Luz.)
Ver. 23. Now the name of the city before was Luz,] i.e., An almond, or a filbert; perhaps from the plenty of such fruits there growing: like as Cerasus in Pontus had its name from cherries, Elaea from olives, &c.
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23 And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
Ver. 23. Out of the fire] viz. of hell; as the angel pulled Lot out of Sodom, as ye would save a drowning man, though ye pulled off some of his hair to save him. {a} Hic est depingendus Satan et Tartarus, et career atrocissimus et luctuoaus, in quo vere sit strider dentium et fletus, saith Aretins. Those that are obstinate, and receive not reproofs, are to be terrified and told of the horror of hell, those seas of vengeance, that worm that never dieth, torments without end and past imagination.
Even the garment spotted] As Nero’s was, when he rode in the same horse litter with his own mother. (Sueton.) The phrase is thought to be taken either from legal impurities of leprous garments, by touching of which men were defiled, Lev 14:54-57; or else from the profuse drunkenness and filthiness of the Gnostics, which sometimes defiled their garments.
{a} Haec est sancta violentia, optabilis rapina. Jerome.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel,....…
And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel,.... To reconnoitre the place, to observe its passes and avenues, which were most accessible, and to examine the walls of it, where they were weakest and least defended:
now the name of the city before was Luz; which signifies a "nut"; perhaps it was so called from large numbers of nut trees which grew near it; the Jews suggest as if it was like a nut, no entrance into it but through a cave or some subterraneous passage, see Gen 28:19.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 23. Beth-el - the name of the city…
Verse 23. Beth-el - the name of the city before was Luz.] Concerning this city and its names, See Clarke on Ge 28:19.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Besieging. Hebrew, "sent to descry," or they came upon…
Besieging. Hebrew, "sent to descry," or they came upon it like spies.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 23. Sent to descry — Or, they reconnoitred. They…
23. Sent to descry — Or, they reconnoitred. They set a secret watch against Beth-el, to obtain such information as would enable them most easily to capture the city.
Luz — Cassel distinguishes between Beth-el and Luz as follows: “As Jebus and Jerusalem are always identified, so it is everywhere remarked of Beth-el that it was formerly Luz; and as Jebus indicated particularly the fortress, Jerusalem the city — although the latter name also embraced both — so a similar relation must be assumed to have existed between Beth-el and Luz. The latter was evidently a fortress high and strong, whose city descended along the mountain slope.”
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 23. sent to spy out Beth-el] lit. made a…
23. sent to spy out Beth-el] lit. made a reconnaissance at B. Perhaps we should read ‘encamped against B.,’ as LXX and Vulgate imply.
Now the name … Luz] A gloss, as in Gen_28:19; cf. ib. Gen_35:6, Gen_48:3, Jos_18:13 P. In Jos_16:2 JE the two places are distinguished, ‘from Beth-el to Luz’; but the text is uncertain, and in the LXX the two are usually identified. Luz is supposed to mean ‘almond-tree’; more suggestively Winckler proposes ‘asylum,’ from the Arab lâdha ‘to seek a refuge’ (Gesch. Isr. 2:65 f.). If the latter is right, Luz may have been a sanctuary before it became famous under the name of Beth-el. According to JE the place was called Beth-el because Jacob set up a stone there after his vision when he fled from Esau (Gen_28:10-22); according to P, because God appeared to him there when he returned from Paddan-aram (Gen_35:9-15).
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (23) To descry Beth-el.—The word perhaps implies a regular…
(23) To descry Beth-el.—The word perhaps implies a regular siege, and it is so understood by the LXX. (Cod. Alex.) and the Vulgate.
Luz.—We are also told that this was the original name of the city in Gen_28:19; but there seems to be in that verse a distinction between the city and the place of Jacob’s dream. (Comp. Jos_16:2.) The name means either “hazel,” or “sinking,” i.e., a valley depression.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Bethel, now Beitin. The name (house of God) had…
Bethel, now Beitin. The name (house of God) had been given by Jacob, (Gen_28:19) but obviously would not be likely to be adopted by the Canaanitish inhabitants, by whom it was called Luz. As soon, however, as the Ephraimites conquered it, they reimposed the name, in memory of their father Jacob. The Saxon charters exhibit an analogous change in such transitions of name, as that from Bedericksworth to Bury St. Edmunds, which took place after the transfer of St. Edmund"s body to the church there, the old name continuing for a time along with the new one, but at last disappearing.
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