Genesis 28:18

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Early in the morning, Jacob took the stone he had used as a pillow, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

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  • Gen 35:14 : 14 Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had spoken with him. He poured out a drink offering on it and also poured oil on it.
  • Gen 31:13 : 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'
  • Gen 31:45 : 45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
  • 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen, naming it Ebenezer, saying, 'Thus far, the LORD has helped us.'
  • 2 Sam 18:18 : 18 During his lifetime, Absalom had set up a pillar in the King’s Valley for himself, saying, 'I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.' He named the pillar after himself, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
  • Num 7:1 : 1 On the day Moses finished setting up the tabernacle, he anointed it and consecrated it along with all its furnishings, the altar, and all its utensils. He anointed them and consecrated them too.
  • Josh 24:26-27 : 26 Joshua recorded these words in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will serve as a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.
  • Gen 22:3 : 3 Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, set out, and went to the place God had told him to go.
  • Ps 119:60 : 60 I hurried and did not delay to keep Your commandments.
  • Eccl 9:10 : 10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
  • Isa 19:19 : 19 In that day, there will be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument to the LORD on its border.
  • Gen 35:20 : 20 Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; that pillar marks Rachel's grave to this day.
  • Lev 8:10-12 : 10 Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and everything in it, consecrating them. 11 He sprinkled some of the oil on the altar seven times, anointed the altar and all its utensils, the basin, and its stand, to consecrate them. 12 He poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 35:13-15
    3 verses
    87%

    13Then God ascended from him at the place where He had spoken with him.

    14Jacob set up a stone pillar at the place where God had spoken with him. He poured out a drink offering on it and also poured oil on it.

    15Jacob called the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.

  • Gen 28:10-13
    4 verses
    82%

    10Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.

    11He came to a certain place, stayed there for the night because the sun had set. He took one of the stones from the place, put it under his head, and lay down in that place.

    12And he dreamed; behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven. The angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

    13And there was the Lord standing above it, and He said, 'I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. The land on which you are lying, I will give to you and to your descendants.'

  • Gen 31:45-46
    2 verses
    82%

    45So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.

    46He said to his relatives, 'Gather some stones.' So they took stones and piled them in a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

  • Gen 28:16-17
    2 verses
    77%

    16Jacob woke up from his sleep and said, 'Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.'

    17He was afraid and said, 'How amazing is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.'

  • Gen 28:19-22
    4 verses
    77%

    19He called the name of that place Bethel, but previously the name of the city was called Luz.

    20Then Jacob made a vow, saying, 'If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey I am taking, and give me food to eat and clothes to wear,

    21'so that I return safely to my father’s house, then the Lord will be my God.'

    22And this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God's house, and of everything you give me, I will surely give a tenth back to you.'

  • Gen 35:1
    75%

    1God said to Jacob, "Get up, go to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau."

  • Gen 35:3
    73%

    3"Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and I will build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone."

  • Gen 35:20
    73%

    20Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; that pillar marks Rachel's grave to this day.

  • Gen 31:13
    72%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land immediately and return to the land of your birth.'

  • Gen 35:6-7
    2 verses
    71%

    6Jacob and all the people with him came to Luz (that is Bethel) in the land of Canaan.

    7There he built an altar and named the place El Bethel (God of Bethel), because it was there that God revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

  • Gen 19:27
    70%

    27Early the next morning, Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the LORD.

  • Gen 29:1-3
    3 verses
    70%

    1Jacob lifted his feet and set out toward the land of the people of the east.

    2He saw a well in the field, and behold, three flocks of sheep were lying beside it because that well was where the flocks were watered. A large stone was over the mouth of the well.

    3All the flocks would gather there, and the shepherds would roll the stone away from the well’s opening to water the sheep, and then they would put the stone back over the well’s mouth in its place.

  • Gen 12:8
    69%

    8From there, Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

  • Gen 31:51-52
    2 verses
    69%

    51Laban also said to Jacob, 'Here is the heap, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

    52This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to harm you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to harm me.

  • Gen 29:10
    69%

    10When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of Laban, his mother's brother, and Laban’s sheep, he went up, rolled the stone away from the well’s mouth, and watered his uncle Laban’s sheep.

  • Gen 33:20
    68%

    20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

  • Gen 26:25
    68%

    25So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

  • Gen 35:9
    68%

    9God appeared to Jacob again after he returned from Paddan-Aram, and He blessed him.

  • Gen 31:17
    67%

    17Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels.

  • Gen 31:21
    67%

    21So Jacob fled with all he had. He crossed the river and set his face toward the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 46:1
    67%

    1Israel set out with everything he had and came to Beersheba, where he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.