The Alutiiq language is relatively close to that spoken by the Yupik in the Bethel, Alaska area, but is considered a distinct language with two major dialects: the Koniag dialect, spoken on the Alaska Peninsula and on Kodiak Island, and the Chugach dialect, is spoken on the southern Kenai Peninsula and in Prince William Sound.

There is also a strong probability that for most or all of the period the temple at Bethel in Benjamin replaced that at Jerusalem, boosting the prestige of Bethel's priests ( the Aaronites ) against those of Jerusalem ( the Zadokites ), now in exile in Babylon.

Although the death of Rebecca, Jacob's mother, is not explicitly recorded in the Bible, Deborah, Rebecca's nurse, died and was buried at Bethel, at a place that Jacob calls Allon Bachuth ( אלון בכות ), " Oak of Weepings " ( Genesis 35: 8 ).

Beyond his bloody coup d ' etat, and his tolerance for the golden calves at Dan and Bethel ( which drew the disdain of the author of Kings ), little is known of the events of Jehu's reign.

Bethel was an important centre for Jeroboam's Golden Calf cult ( which used non-Levites as priests ), located on Israel's southern border, which had been allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua, as was Ephron, which is believed to be the Ophrah that was allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin by Joshua.

In this role, Samuel is associated with the bands of musical ecstatic roaming prophets ( shouters-neb ' im ) at Gibeah, Bethel, and Gilgal, and some traditional scholars have argued that Samuel was the founder of these groups.

The passage () in which Samuel is described as having exercised the functions of a ( biblical ) judge, during an annual circuit from Ramah to Bethel to Gilgal ( the Gilgal between Ebal and Gerizim ) to Mizpah and back to Ramah, is thought by textual scholars to be a redaction aimed at harmonizing the two portrayals of Samuel.

Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles ( 69 km ) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County.

The county is divided into twelve townships: Bethel, Fairview, Garfield, Glenwood, Meckling, Norway, Pleasant Valley, Prairie Center, Riverside, Spirit Mound, Star, Vermillion.

Though Bethel had originally been allocated to Benjamin, by the time of the prophetess Deborah, Bethel is described as being in the land of the Ephraim.

However, even by the time of the prophetess Deborah, Bethel is described as being in the land of the Tribe of Ephraim.

He ignores the christological issues that arise from equating Jesus to the calf idol of Bethel which is the " him " being brought to the king in.

Bethel Census Area is a census area located in the U. S. state of Alaska.

Its largest community by far is the city of Bethel, which also the largest city in the entire Unorganized Borough.

Bethel Census Area is one of only 38 county-level census divisions of the United States where the most spoken language is not English and one of only 3 where it is neither English nor Spanish.

The county is divided into fifteen townships: Bald Mountain, Beaverdam, Blowing Rock, Blue Ridge, Boone, Brushy Fork, Cove Creek, Bethel, Deep Gap, Meat Camp, New River, North Fork, Shawneehaw, Stony Fork, and Todd.

The county is divided into seventeen townships: Arthur, Ayden, Belvoir, Bethel, Black Jack, Carolina ( Stokes ), Chicod, Falkland, Farmville, Fountain, Greenville, Grifton, Grimesland, Pactolus, Simpson, Swift Creek, and Winterville.

The county is divided into nine township districts: Allensville, Bushy Fork, Cunningham, Flat River, Holloway, Mount Tirzah, Olive Hill, Roxboro, and Woodsdale ( which includes Bethel Hill ).

Lenoir County is home to two private academies -- Arendell Parrott Academy and Bethel Christian Academy -- and two charter academies -- Kinston Charter Academy and Children's Village Academy.

Again it is possible for this to simply be yet another circle of standing stones ( or the same one as mentioned in relation to Elijah and Elisha, as Bethel is on the circuit with Gilgal, and other assumed locations show Gilgal to be far further away than the other two locations ), and significant that it is treated as a holy place by the biblical text, rather than as a heathen one.

The Ai mentioned by the Book of Joshua is also mentioned by the Book of Genesis as having been a religious sanctuary, which it claims was founded by Abraham ; Abraham's tent, i. e. the area he settled, is stated by the Bible to have been between Bethel and Ai.

Some suspect it may be this god rather than the city of Bethel that is mentioned:

Bethel is mentioned, but unfortunately with no details, in Elephantine and Hermopolis papyri.

For example, E. Nestle's Philologica Sacra ( 1896 ) suggests that Bethany is derived from the personal name Anaiah, while others have suggested it is a shortened version of Ananiah, a village of Bethel mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah ( 11: 32 ).

An example is also mentioned as Bethel in Genesis 28: 11-19.

The summer 2007 concert lineup at Bethel Woods began on June 2007 with the bands Chicago and America.

They were put on initial alert to deploy to Bethel in 2007 when 9 of the 11 officers of the city's police department resigned in protest over a pay and benefits dispute with city officials.

* Bethel University Arena University located at the National Sports Center in Blaine, MN has been the home of men's and women's hockey since Jan. 19, 2007.

* 2007: Bethel Park

The 1987 made for TV film starred Kevin Spacey as Jamie, Peter Gallagher as Edmund, Jack Lemmon as James Tyrone, Bethel Leslie as Mary, and Jodie Lynne McClintock as Cathleen.

Dawn Shirley Crang Bethel ( January 17, 1932 – November 4, 2005 ), professionally known as Sheree North, was an American film and television actress, dancer, and singer.

The companies were recruited principally in: A at Monticello, Fremont, Bethel, Rockland, Forestburg, Liberty and Beaver Kill ; B at Bethel, Thompson, Fallsburg, Forestburg and Stormville ; C at Fallsburg, Rockland, Grahamville and Neversink ; D at Ithaca and Lansing ; E at Wurtsborough, Bridgeville, Monticello and Phillipsport ; F at Fremont, Callicoon, Jeffersonville, Rockland and Monticello ; G at Fremont, Bloomingburg, Neversink, Monticello, Thompson, Cochecton and Tusten ; H at Liberty, Monticello and Rockland ; I at Dryden and Cochecton ; K at Cochecton, Monticello, Tusten, Callicoon, Highland and Thompson.

* Noël Regney, composer of the song " Do You Hear What I Hear ", lived in Bethel from 1984-1998.

Hymns from all three churches were sung: All people that on earth do dwell from the Scottish Presbyterian psalm tradition ; the Methodist favourite O for a thousand tongues to sing by John Wesley ; the Congregationalist O God of Bethel ; and When I survey the wondrous cross by the British Nonconformist, Isaac Watts.

Bethel appears in Genesis 31. 13, " I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst a pillar, where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy nativity.

* A layperson's account of the Seminex controversy's effects within St. Louis's Bethel Lutheran Church: Part I and Part II.

Bethel College was a bilingual college until early 1918, when the U. S. entered World War I. German was removed from the curriculum, although it would later return.

In 922 BC, when Jeroboam I establishes the northern kingdom of Israel, he builds two golden calves and places them in Bethel and Dan.

" I know a man who is firm-he's firm in his pants, he's firm in his shirt, his character is firm-but most all, his belief in you the students of Bethel, is firm.

The fortified position at Big Bethel Church was a short distance further north from Little Bethel Church, along and mainly north of Marsh Creek ( now named Brick Kiln Creek ), a tributary of Back Creek.

Jeroboam's reign was also the period of the prophets Hosea, Joel, Jonah and Amos, all of whom condemned the materialism and selfishness of the Israelite elite of their day: " Woe unto those who lie upon beds of ivory ... eat lambs from the flock and calves ... sing idle songs ..." The book of Kings, written a century later condemns Jeroboam for doing " evil in the eyes of the Lord ", meaning both the oppression of the poor and his continuing support of the cult centres of Dan and Bethel, in opposition to the temple in Jerusalem.

Because God sent lions among them to kill them, the king of the Assyrians sent one of the priests from Bethel to teach the new settlers about God's ordinances.

It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre ( 2. 4 km² ; 240 ha, 0. 94 mi² ) dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969.

The peak experience of this type was the Woodstock Festival near Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969, which drew over 500, 000 people.

As markets redeveloped, new trade routes that would avoid the heavy tariffs of the coast would develop from Kadesh Barnea, through Hebron, Lachish, Jerusalem, Bethel, Samaria, Shechem, Shiloh through Galilee to Jezreel, Hazor and Megiddo.

17: 15 ; 19: 50 ; 20: 7 ), extending from Bethel to the plain of Jezreel.

Bethel was the site of a post office in Grant County that existed from March 12, 1895, until November 2, 1895.

Often the village hosts a dance festival in April, and the large Camai-i festival in Bethel attracts many from Chefornak and the surrounding villages to display their dances and to see the dances of other regions.

Napakiak is the terminus of a unique 8. 5 mile prototype single-wire earth return electrical intertie from Bethel, Alaska, constructed in 1981.

The ice road is constructed each winter from Aniak to Bethel by drilling and marking holes in the ice every 100 yards and subsequently marking and plowing a route on the river where the ice depth is sufficient.

K268AB ( FM 101. 5 ) is a rebroadcaster of KBRW-FM, a public radio station in Barrow and K232DU, a rebroadcast of KYKD, a religious station from Bethel.

Amity was founded in 1847 by several pioneer families from the Mount Bethel area of Clark County under the leadership of William F. Browning, who served as the Clark County surveyor during the years of 1846 until his death in 1854.

The racial makeup of Bethel Island was 1, 843 ( 86. 2 %) White, 40 ( 1. 9 %) African American, 15 ( 0. 7 %) Native American, 46 ( 2. 2 %) Asian, 4 ( 0. 2 %) Pacific Islander, 119 ( 5. 6 %) from other races, and 70 ( 3. 3 %) from two or more races.

There is a general consensus that the name " Bethalto " came from the first four letters of Bethel and the first four letters of nearby Alton.

Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, USA, whose name derives from Bethlehem.

The Town of Bethel was established in 1809 from the Town of Lumberland.

The town was formed from the Town of Bethel in 1828.

Just seven miles ( 11 km ) away from the Raceway is Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival.

Mr. John Dawson Everett, Robersonville native and a graduate of Peabody College, came from Bethel in 1905 to become principal and remained through 1909.

* 1790-Prince Williams, a freed slave from South Carolina, goes to Nassau, Bahamas, where he will start Bethel Meeting House

In 2008 the Bethel Township Board of Trustees received a 45, 000 block grant from Clark County's commissioners for the construction of a small parking lot and gazebo.

* The township's web site has a wealth of information on the history of Bethel reproduced, with the author's permission, from the book " Bethel Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Thru Three Centuries.