Genesis 31:45

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

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  • Gen 28:18-22 : 18 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. 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but previously the name of the city was called Luz. 20 Then 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.' 22 And 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.'

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  • Gen 31:46-48
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, and Jacob called it Galeed.

    48Laban said, 'This heap is a witness between you and me today.' That is why it was called Galeed.

  • Gen 35:13-15
    3 verses
    82%

    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 28:17-18
    2 verses
    82%

    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.'

    18Early 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.

  • Gen 31:51-53
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    79%

    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.

    53May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.' So Jacob took an oath in the name of the Fear of his father Isaac.

  • Gen 35:20
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    20Jacob set up a pillar on her grave; that pillar marks Rachel's grave to this day.

  • Gen 28:11-12
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    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.

  • Gen 31:44
    76%

    44Come now, let us make a covenant, you and I, and let it serve as a witness between us.'

  • Josh 24:26-27
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    73%

    26Joshua 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.

    27And 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 29:2-3
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    72%

    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 35:1
    71%

    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."

  • 1 Kgs 18:31
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    31Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, 'Your name shall be Israel.'

  • Gen 33:20
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    20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

  • 1 Kgs 7:21
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    21He set up the pillars at the portico of the temple. He set up the right-hand pillar and named it Jachin, and the left-hand pillar and named it Boaz.

  • Josh 4:20
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    20And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.

  • Gen 28:22
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    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 35:3
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    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 29:10
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    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.

  • Josh 4:8-9
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    8So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, as the LORD had told Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites. They carried them over with them to their camp and set them down there.

    9Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, under the place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there to this day.

  • Deut 27:4
    69%

    4And when you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I am commanding you today, and coat them with plaster.

  • Gen 31:25
    69%

    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

  • Gen 35:7
    69%

    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 31:13
    69%

    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.'

  • 2 Chr 3:17
    68%

    17Then he erected the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right and the other on the left. He named the one on the right Jachin and the one on the left Boaz.

  • Josh 4:6
    68%

    6This will serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

  • Deut 27:2
    68%

    2On the day you cross the Jordan to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.

  • Gen 31:17
    68%

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