Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for the LORD hath sent me to Bethel. And Elisha said unto him, As the LORD liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Bethel.

Bible References

Tarry here

Ruth 1:15
Then she said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and her gods; return after your sister-in-law.”
2 Samuel 15:19
Then the king said to Ittai the Gittite, “Why will you also go with us? Return and remain with the king, for you are a foreigner and also an exile; return to your own place.
John 6:67
So Jesus said to the twelve, “You do not want to go away also, do you?”

I will not

Ruth 1:16
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you; for where you go, I will go, and where you lodge, I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God, my God.
2 Samuel 15:21
But Ittai answered the king and said, “As the Lord lives, and as my lord the king lives, surely wherever my lord the king may be, whether for death or for life, there also your servant will be.”
1 John 2:19
They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us.

Beth-el

Genesis 28:19
He called the name of that place Bethel; however, previously the name of the city had been Luz.
1 Kings 12:29
He set one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.
1 Kings 13:1
Now behold, there came a man of God from Judah to Bethel by the word of the Lord, while Jeroboam was standing by the altar to burn incense.

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