If we are to accept the precise definition of Ge 12:8 the name of Bethel would appear to have existed at this spot even before the arrival of Abram in Canaan. Bethel in Joshua 19:4 answers to Chesil in Joshua 15:30. This spot became a center of great interest, lending growing importance to the town. Anonymous.png 462 397; 151 KB. Shechem or Sichem was the first place where Abraham came to in Canaan. To this second occasion of God's speaking with Jacob at Bethel, Hosea (12:4,5) makes reference. There is much history in this place (Joshua 24:1, Judges 9:6, 1 Kings 12:1).5. Near the city is the well at which the Saviour held his discourse with the woman of Samaria. See Ge 12:6 At the time of Jacob's arrival here, after his sojourn in Mesopotamia, Ge 33:18; 34 Shechem was a Hivite city, of which Hamor, the father of Shechem, was the headman. Jewish tradition makes Haran to have been cast into Nimrod's furnace for wavering during Abram's fiery trial.Haran in Hitchcock's Bible Names mountainous countryHaran in Naves Topical Bible 1. (See MEONENIM T0002483.) Father of one of David's mighty men 1Ch 11:35Ur in Smiths Bible Dictionary was the land of Haran's nativity, Ge 11:28 the place from which Terah and Abraham started "to go into the land of Canaan." Gaza, near Shechem, only mentioned 1 Chr. The maqom was doubtless that at which Abraham had sacrificed, East of the town. Learn about Godly choices. Abraham's Journey - Topo Color Map (Hi-Res. The city, near the place, then bore the Canaanite name Luz. The Lord also spoke a promise that anyone who blessed Abraham and his descendants would be blessed and anyone who cursed Abraham and his descendants would be cursed. Smith's Bible Dictionary suggests that nachal) is related to the Nile and is that river; but the distinctness with which nachal) is mentioned, and not as elsewhere Sihor, or "river," Ye'or, forbids the identification. Dan. The word Nile nowhere occurs in the Authorized Version but it is spoken of under the names of Sihor [SIHOR] and the "river of Egypt." It stood near the mouth of the Euphrates, on its western bank, and is represented by the mounds (of bricks cemented by bitumen) of el-Mugheir, i.e., "the bitumined," or "the town of bitumen," now 150 miles from the sea and some 6 miles from the Euphrates, a little above the point where it receives the Shat el-Hie, an affluent from the Tigris. In process of time the name Luz disappeared, giving place to that of the adjoining sanctuary, town and sanctuary being identified. One of Jeroboam's two sanctuaries for the calf worship, selected doubtless because of its religious associations (1 Kings 12-13). The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. Bethel is the name given by anticipation to the place; appropriately so, as Abram virtually made it the "house of God." A town in the south part of Judah, named in Jos 12:16 and 1Sam 30:27 In Jos 15:30; 19:4; 1Ch 4:29,30 the place appears under the name of CHESIL, BETHUL and BETHUEL. Bible Reference & Map Description. On the round mount S.E. The Hebrews . He captured the city, razed it to the foundations, and sowed it with salt. with maps; The Moldovan family Holy Land Map Collection; Biblical Maps: Alphabetically and Topically Arranged .