"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, Israel.
This place where Jacob first met God and called it Bethel, the house of God. "Surely the Lord is in this place, and I knew it not." But they had made it a place of idolatrous worship, the center of their idolatrous worship in the Northern Kingdom. "Come to Bethel,"