See on Gen. 28:19. This city passed into the hands of Ephraim when the tribe of Benjamin was all but exterminated (Judges 20). In the division of the kingdom, under Rehoboam, though the tribe of Benjamin joined with Judah, Bethel was regarded as part of the northern kingdom of Israel in Jeroboam’s southern boundary. It was here that Jeroboam set up one of the golden calves (1 Kings 12:19-33).
Zemaraim.
This place has been identified with the ruins called Rasez-Zeimara, northeast of the Wadi el-Keziz, near the road from Jerusalem to Jericho. The Zemarites are mentioned in Gen. 10:18 as a Canaanite tribe.