are there two bethlehems in israel?
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Of the two Bethlehems in Israel – one near Jerusalem and the other up north – the former receives most of the fame while the latter maintains relative anonymity.
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"the Galilean Bethlehem") is a moshav in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Kiryat Tivon, around 10 kilometres north-west of Nazareth and 30 kilometres east of Haifa, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Jezreel Valley Regional Council. In 2018 it had a population of 825.
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Jaffa is mentioned four times in the Hebrew Bible, as a city opposite the territory given to the Hebrew Tribe of Dan (Joshua 19:46), as port-of-entry for the cedars of Lebanon for Solomon's Temple (2 Chronicles 2:16), as the place whence the prophet Jonah embarked for Tarshish (Jonah 1:3) and again as port-of-entry for ...
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['syzran.', 'azrael.', 'nazran.', 'bozrah.', 'hezrai.', 'azrail.', 'azraqi.', 'mizrah.']
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Mary did not ride to Bethlehem on a donkey. Nowhere in any Gospel does it say that Mary did anything but walk. The whole journey is given in three lines: Joseph and Mary went to Bethlehem and while they were there, she went into labour.
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['Weihnachtsmarkt Am Kölner Dom, Cologne. ... ', 'Dresden Striezelmarkt, Dresden. ... ', "Berlin's Christmas markets, Berlin. ... ", 'Stuttgarter Weihnachtsmarkt, Stuttgart. ... ', 'Leipziger Weihnachtsmarkt, Leipzig. ... ', 'Aachener Weihnachtsmarkt, Aachen. ... ', 'Nuremberg Christkindlesmarkt, Nuremberg.']
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Byzantine period sources describe Aenon near Salim as being at a site south of Beit-Shean. Indeed, 8 km south of Beth-Shean is a set of springs next to a mound called Tel Shalem. In the 1970's a tourist found, by chance, a bronze sculpture of a Roman emperor at Tel Shalem.
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The mountain is also called the Mountain of YHWH. In other biblical passages, these events are described as having transpired at Mount Sinai. Although most scholars consider Sinai and Horeb to have been different names for the same place, there is a minority body of opinion that they may have been different locations.
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The Bible has two different ways of speaking about two objects of God's love: Israel and Zion. Israel is masculine, and Zion/Jerusalem is feminine. The difference between the two is more visible in Hebrew which distinguishes masculine and feminine in the verbs as well as in the adjectives.
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Mary rode on a donkey when they travelled to Bethlehem. Unlikely. There is no mention of a donkey. Ask any woman who has been pregnant if she would want to ride a donkey and she will say no.
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['Jerusalem. Along the boundaries of West Bank in modern-day Israel lies Jerusalem, one of the oldest cities in the world. ... ', 'Bethlehem. ... ', 'Sephoria. ... ', 'Sea of Galilee. ... ', 'Nazareth.']
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Here is your answer, I hope it helped. And Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family line of David, to be registered along with Mary, who was engaged to him and was pregnant.
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Capernaum in the New Testament Jesus was born in Bethlehem, brought up in Nazareth and preached in Jerusalem but it was the significant Galilean Ministry years which he spent in Capernaum and where he performed many of his miracles. Capernaum became his home and the Bible calls it Jesus' “own city”.
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Zion appears in the Old Testament 152 times as a title of Jerusalem; over half of these occurrences appear in two books, the Book of Isaiah (46 times) and that of Psalms (38 times). It appears seven times in the New Testament and five times in quotations from the Old Testament.
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The holy places included sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, as well as: Sephoria, where the Virgin Mary was said to have spent her childhood. The River Jordan, site of Christ's baptism. Cave dwelling of John the Baptist.
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['Yusuf.', 'Yosef.', 'Yousef.', 'Yehuda.', 'Yahya.', 'Yaakov.', 'Yuri.', 'Yoel.']
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['A Partridge in a Pear Tree - Jesus Christ.', 'Two Turtle Doves - The Old and New Testaments.', 'Three French Hens - The three virtues of Faith, Hope and Charity.', 'Four Calling/Collie Birds - Four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.', 'Five Golden Rings - First five books of the Old Testament.']