Bethel

The men of Bethel and Ai, a hundred twenty-three.

The children of Benjamin also lived from Geba onward, at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,

Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.

So Bethel will do to you because of your great wickedness. At daybreak the king of Israel will be destroyed.

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

“For in the day that I visit the transgressions of Israel on him, I will also visit the altars of Bethel; and the horns of the altar will be cut off, and fall to the ground.

“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,

but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

Seek the LORD, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.

Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, “Amos has conspired against you in the midst of the house of Israel. The land is not able to bear all his words.

but don’t prophesy again any more at Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary, and it is a royal house!”

The people of Bethel sent Sharezer and Regem Melech, and their men, to entreat the LORD’s favor,