Genesis 12:8

World English Bible (2000)

He left from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to Yahweh and called on the name of Yahweh.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Neh 11:31 : 31 The children of Benjamin also [lived] from Geba [onward], at Michmash and Aija, and at Bethel and its towns,
  • Gen 4:26 : 26 There was also born a son to Seth, and he named him Enosh. Then men began to call on Yahweh's name.
  • Gen 21:33 : 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
  • Gen 28:19 : 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
  • Gen 35:3 : 3 Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."
  • Gen 35:15-16 : 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel." 16 They traveled from Bethel. There was still some distance to come to Ephrath, and Rachel travailed. She had hard labor.
  • Josh 7:2 : 2 Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai.
  • Josh 8:3 : 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them out by night.
  • Josh 8:17 : 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Beth El who didn't go out after Israel. They left the city open, and pursued Israel.
  • Josh 18:22 : 22 Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
  • Gen 13:4 : 4 to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.
  • Ps 116:4 : 4 Then I called on the name of Yahweh: "Yahweh, I beg you, deliver my soul."
  • Isa 10:28 : 28 He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
  • Joel 2:32 : 32 It will happen that whoever will call on the name of Yahweh shall be saved; for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who escape, as Yahweh has said, and among the remnant, those whom Yahweh calls.
  • Acts 2:21 : 21 It will be, that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.'
  • Rom 10:12-14 : 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 13 For, "Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved." 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
  • 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the assembly of God which is at Corinth; those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, both theirs and ours:

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Gen 13:18
    83%

    18Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.

  • Gen 13:3-4
    2 verses
    82%

    3He went on his journeys from the South even to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

    4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. There Abram called on the name of Yahweh.

  • Gen 12:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

    6Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. The Canaanite was then in the land.

    7Yahweh appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your seed." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him.

  • Gen 35:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him.

    7He built an altar there, and called the place El Beth El; because there God was revealed to him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

  • Gen 26:25
    79%

    25He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

  • Gen 33:20
    78%

    20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

  • Gen 35:1
    76%

    1God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."

  • Gen 35:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13God went up from him in the place where he spoke with him.

    14Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he spoke with him, a pillar of stone. He poured out a drink offering on it, and poured oil on it.

    15Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him "Bethel."

  • Gen 35:3
    74%

    3Let us arise, and go up to Bethel. I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went."

  • Gen 31:13
    73%

    13I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.'"

  • Gen 12:1
    73%

    1Now Yahweh said to Abram, "Get out of your country, and from your relatives, and from your father's house, to the land that I will show you.

  • Gen 28:18-19
    2 verses
    73%

    18Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put under his head, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil on its top.

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

  • Josh 8:30
    73%

    30Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

  • Gen 12:9
    72%

    9Abram traveled, going on still toward the South.

  • Gen 22:9
    72%

    9They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

  • Gen 22:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh's mountain, it will be provided."

    15The angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

  • Gen 28:11-13
    3 verses
    71%

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

    12He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

    13Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.

  • Gen 13:12
    71%

    12Abram lived in the land of Canaan, and Lot lived in the cities of the plain, and moved his tent as far as Sodom.

  • Gen 26:23
    71%

    23He went up from there to Beersheba.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
    71%

    29He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

  • Gen 19:27
    70%

    27Abraham got up early in the morning to the place where he had stood before Yahweh.

  • 1 Kgs 18:32
    70%

    32With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh. He made a trench around the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed.

  • Gen 22:11
    70%

    11The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."

  • Gen 13:14
    70%

    14Yahweh said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, "Now, lift up your eyes, and look from the place where you are, northward and southward and eastward and westward,

  • Gen 21:33
    70%

    33Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.

  • Exod 20:24
    70%

    24You shall make an altar of earth for me, and shall sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your cattle. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

  • Gen 18:1
    69%

    1Yahweh appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day.

  • Gen 26:17
    69%

    17Isaac departed from there, encamped in the valley of Gerar, and lived there.