Judges 1:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ The house of Joseph sent out spies to Bethel (the name of the city was formerly Luz).

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ And the house of Joseph was sent to spy out Bethel. The name of the city formerly had been Luz.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Beth-el. (Now the name of the city beforetime was Luz.)

Common English Bible

²³ When they sent men to spy on Bethel, previously named Luz,

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ For when they were besieging the city, which was previously called Luz,

Judges 1:23 Cross References

Genesis 28:19

He called that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.

Genesis 48:3

And Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and he blessed me

Genesis 35:6

Jacob came to Luz, that is, Bethel, which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him,

Judges 18:2

So the Danites sent five valiant men from the whole number of their clan, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land and to explore it, and they said to them, “Go, explore the land.” When they came to the hill country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they stayed there.

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and said to them, “Go up and spy out the land.” And the men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 2:1

Then Joshua son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and spent the night there.

Joshua 18:13

From there the boundary passes along southward in the direction of Luz, to the slope of Luz (that is, Bethel), then the boundary goes down to Ataroth-addar, on the mountain that lies south of Lower Beth-horon.

Judges 1:22

The house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and the Lord was with them.

Joshua 16:1

The allotment of the Josephites went from the Jordan by Jericho, east of the waters of Jericho, into the wilderness, going up from Jericho into the hill country to Bethel;

Joshua 16:2

then going from Bethel to Luz, it passes along to Ataroth, the territory of the Archites;