Josephus, War 4.9.9 (1st cent. A.D.)
In the meantime Vespasian removed from Cesarea, on the fifth day of the month Daesius [Sivan], and marched against those places of Judea which were not yet overthrown. (551) So he went up to the mountainous country, and took those two toparchies that were called the Gophnitick and Acrabattene toparchies. After which he took Bethel and Ephraim, two small cities; and when he had put garrisons into them, he rode as far as Jerusalem, in which march he took many prisoners, and many captives.
Hieronymus, Ep.108 (Peregrinatio Paulae) 13 (385 A.D.)
Time would fail me to tell of the Valley of Achor (or "tumult and disturbance") where theft and avarice were condemned; and of Bethel ("House of God") where on the naked earth slept Jacob, himself naked and poor. Yet the stone under his head was the one described by Zechariah as having seven eyes, and by Isaiah as the corner stone, and he saw reaching to heaven the ladder, and the Lord bending down from above it giving his hand to those climbing up, and casting down the careless from on high.