Genesis 28:19

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 48:3 : 3 Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
  • Judg 1:22-26 : 22 The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them. 23 The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.) 24 The watchers saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said to him, "Please show us the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with you." 25 He showed them the entrance into the city; and they struck the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family. 26 The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.
  • 1 Kgs 12:29 : 29 He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.
  • Hos 4:15 : 15 "Though you, Israel, play the prostitute, yet don't let Judah offend; and don't come to Gilgal, neither go up to Beth Aven, nor swear, 'As Yahweh lives.'
  • Hos 12:4-5 : 4 Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us, 5 even Yahweh, the God of Armies; Yahweh is his name of renown!
  • Gen 12:8 : 8 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.
  • Gen 35:1 : 1 God 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."

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  • Gen 35:14-15
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    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 35:6-7
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    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.

  • Judg 1:26
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    26The man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called its name Luz, which is its name to this day.

  • Judg 1:22-23
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    22The house of Joseph, they also went up against Bethel; and Yahweh was with them.

    23The house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

  • Gen 28:16-18
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    16Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."

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

    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.

  • Gen 48:3
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    3Jacob said to Joseph, "God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,

  • Gen 28:10-12
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    10Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.

    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.

  • Gen 35:1
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    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 12:8
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    8He 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.

  • Gen 31:13
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    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 31:47-48
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    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed.

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  • Gen 35:3
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    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 28:20-21
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    20Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,

    21so that I come again to my father's house in peace, and Yahweh will be my God,

  • Gen 33:20
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    20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

  • Josh 16:2
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    2It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;

  • Gen 35:9-10
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    9God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan Aram, and blessed him.

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    27He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."

  • Gen 13:3-4
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    29Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.

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  • Gen 26:33
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    33He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

  • Josh 18:22
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    22Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

  • Gen 26:25
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    25He built an altar there, and called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. There Isaac's servants dug a well.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
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    29He set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan.

  • Gen 22:14
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    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."

  • Gen 32:2
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    2When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's army." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.

  • Gen 31:45
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    45Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

  • Judg 18:29
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    29They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city was Laish at the first.

  • Josh 18:13
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    13The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.

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    31Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore there.