On that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it and its king with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them; all the souls who were in it. He let none remain. He also did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel.

And he moved from there to the mountain east of Bethel, and he pitched his tent with Bethel toward the sea and Ai on the east. There he built an altar unto Jehovah and called upon the name of Jehovah.

And he called the name of that place Bethel; but the name of that city had formerly been Luz.

And the house of Joseph also went up against Bethel, and Jehovah was with them.