Bethlehem has 3 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | So they both went until they came to Bethlehem. When they had come to Bethlehem, all the city was excited about them, and they asked, "Is this Naomi?" | |
| 2. | Afterwards, we went to Bethlehem to see the statues. | |
| 3. | Jesus was born in Bethlehem. | |
| 4. | Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea. | |
| 5. | When the Three Wise Men rode from the East into the West on that "first, best Christmas night," they bore on their saddle-bows three caskets filled with gold and frankincense and myrrh, to be laid at the feet of the manger-cradled babe of Bethlehem. | |
| 6. | Herod, seeing that he had been tricked by the wise men, was so enraged that he sent and killed all the boys who were in Bethlehem, and in all the region around it, two years old and under, according to the time which he had ascertained from the wise men. | |
| 7. | So Rachel died, and was buried in the highway that leadeth to Ephrata, this is Bethlehem. | |
| 8. | For, when I came out of Mesopotamia, Rachel died from me in the land of Canaan in the very journey, and it was spring time: and I was going to Ephrata, and I buried her near the way of Ephrata, which by another name is called Bethlehem. | |
| 9. | A certain man of Bethlehem Judah went to live in the country of Moab with his wife and his two sons. | |
| 10. | The name of the man was Elimelech, and the name of his wife Naomi. The names of his two sons were Mahlon and Chilion, Ephrathites of Bethlehem Judah. They came into the country of Moab and lived there. |