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Elevation Point 914, a prominent hill located 900 meters east of the village of Beitin, by Aharon Tavger have uncovered several Middle Bronze and Iron II remains which have led excavator at E.P. 914 to propose this place as the ancient cult site of Bethel, and perhaps the
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to go to Bethel to visit the 'Hill of God,' where he will meet a group of prophets coming down from the high place with a 'psaltery, and a tabret, and a pipe, and a harp.' It appears that there was a
Philistine garrison there at that time. Bethel is mentioned again in
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in the far north of his kingdom. This was apparently to make it unnecessary for the people of Israel to have to go to
Jerusalem to worship in the temple there. It seems that this action provoked the hostility of the Judaeans. A story is told at
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for the worship of Baal, and accuses them of making or using images for 'idol' worship. Chief among these, it appears, was the image of the bull at Bethel, which by the time of Hosea was being worshipped as an image of Baal.
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During the Early Iron Age, a newer settlement was established. This settlement was continuously inhabited during the early and later phases of the Iron Age, although the exact date of its destruction remains uncertain.
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first excavated a test pit in Bethel in 1927, while
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repeats the covenant with God and the naming of the place as El-Bethel, and makes this the site of Jacob's own change of name to Israel. Both versions state that the original name of the place was
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Tavger, Aharon (2021). ""And He Called the Name of that Place Bethel" (Gen 28: 19): Historical-Geography and
Archaeology of the Sanctuary of Bethel". In Hensel, Benedikt (ed.).
236:(1838–52). Robinson based this assessment on the location described in ancient texts, and on the philological similarities between the modern and ancient name, arguing that
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Livingston and John J. Bimson, who proposed an alternative identification, suggesting that Bethel might be equated with
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tombs, houses and olive presses were discovered to the north and southeast of the village. The remains of a
Canaanite temple were also excavated by archaeologists.
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Do not seek Bethel, do not go to Gilgal, do not journey to
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1565:. In Lipschits, O.; Gadot, Y.; Adams, M. J. (eds.).
1449:. In Lipschits, O.; Gadot, Y.; Adams, M. J. (eds.).
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