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The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

be-thu'-el, beth'-u-el (bethu'el, "destroyed of God"): A town of Simeon (1Ch 4:30), the same as Bethul (Jos 19:4), and, probably, as the Beth-el of 1Sa 30:27.