bethel

• “The house was called bethel agreeable to the prayer that was made.”

  The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labours of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen. To Which is Annexed the Rise and Progress of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Containing a Narrative of the Yellow Fever in the Year of Our Lord 1793: With an Address to the People of Colour in the United States

• “Note: I thought "bethel" was the word for house in Hebrew - what is this Jeru stuff?”

  Archive 2008-03-01

• “She sprang from the bed and hurriedly rearranged the bethel on her bedspread.”

  Simon & Schuster: Sin in Soul's Kitchen

• “She will send you a letter if you send her a postcard. note: postcard deal still good, let me know if you'd like a reply: po box 81 bethel vt 05032”

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• “There is a bethel, or floating "seaman's chapel," anchored in the”

  Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas

• “BAETYLUS (Gr. [Greek: baitulos, baitulion]), a word of Semitic origin (= bethel) denoting a sacred stone, which was supposed to be endowed with life.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"

• “Page 8 and so our house for years was a real "bethel.”

  My Own Life Story

• “They had matched each other in number since the French admiral had exiled the British missionary-consul, and compelled the queen to erect a papal church for every bethel.”

  Mystic Isles of the South Seas.

• “A stone might be a/bît îli/or bethel -- a "house of god," and almost invested with the status of a living thing, but that does not prove that the Babylonians thought of every stone as being endowed with life, even in prehistoric times.”

  The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria

• “Before breakfast, another blast for family and private prayer; and then every tent became, in camp language, "a bethel of struggling Jacobs and prevailing Israels," every tree "an altar;" and every grove "a secret closet;" till the air all became religious words and phrases, and vocal with "Amens.”

  The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.)

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