士师记 1:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

約瑟家派人去窺探伯特利。那城從前的名字叫路斯。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 瑟 家 打 发 人 去 窥 探 伯 特 利 （ 那 城 起 先 名 叫 路 斯 ） 。

Contextual Overview

²¹ But the people of Benjamin could not make the Jebusite people leave Jerusalem. Since that time the Jebusites have lived with the Benjaminites in Jerusalem. ²² The men of Joseph went to fight against the city of Bethel, and the Lord was with them. ²³ They sent some spies to Bethel (which used to be called Luz). ²⁴ The spies saw a man coming out of the city and said to him, "Show us a way into the city, and we will be kind to you." ²⁵ So the man showed them the way into the city. The men of Joseph attacked with swords the people in Bethel, but they let the man and his family go free. ²⁶ He went to the land where the Hittites lived and built a city. He named it Luz, which it is called even today. ²⁷ There were Canaanites living in the cities of Beth Shan, Taanach, Dor, Ibleam, Megiddo, and the small towns around them. The people of Manasseh did not force those people out of their towns, because the Canaanites were determined to stay there. ²⁸ Later, the Israelites grew strong and forced the Canaanites to work as slaves, but they did not make all the Canaanites leave their land. ²⁹ The people of Ephraim did not force out all of the Canaanites living in Gezer. So the Canaanites continued to live in Gezer with the people of Ephraim. ³⁰ The people of Zebulun did not force out the Canaanites living in the cities of Kitron and Nahalol. They stayed and lived with the people of Zebulun, but Zebulun made them work as slaves.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sent: Judges 18:2, Joshua 2:1, Joshua 7:2

Luz: Genesis 28:19, Genesis 35:6, Genesis 48:3

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 30:27 - Bethel 1 Kings 11:28 - the house 1 Chronicles 19:3 - to search Amos 5:6 - the house

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel,.... To reconnoitre the place, to observe its passes and avenues, which were most accessible, and to examine the walls of it, where they were weakest and least defended:

now the name of the city before [was] Luz; which signifies a "nut"; perhaps it was so called from large numbers of nut trees which grew near it; the Jews suggest as if it was like a nut, no entrance into it but through a cave or some subterraneous passage, see Genesis 28:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Judges 1:23. Beth-el - the name of the city before was Luz. — Concerning this city and its names, Genesis 28:19.