Genesis 33:20

Webster's Bible (1833)

He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.{El Elohe Israel means "God, the God of Israel" or "The God of Israel is mighty."}

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 8:20 : 20 Noah built an altar to Yahweh, and took of every clean animal, and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • Gen 12:7-8 : 7 Yahweh appeared to Abram, and said, "I will give this land to your seed{or, offspring}." He built an altar there to Yahweh, who appeared to him. 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 13:18 : 18 Abram moved his tent, and came and lived by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar there to Yahweh.
  • Gen 21:33 : 33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God.
  • Gen 32:28 : 28 He said, "Your name will no longer be called 'Jacob,' but, 'Israel,' for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
  • Gen 35:7 : 7 He 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 12:7-8
    2 verses
    78%

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

    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 35:7
    77%

    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
    76%

    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 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 33:18-19
    2 verses
    74%

    18Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan Aram; and encamped before the city.

    19He bought the parcel of ground, where he had spread his tent, at the hand of the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.

  • Josh 8:30
    74%

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

  • Gen 13:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    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 35:3
    72%

    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."

  • Judg 6:24
    72%

    24Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it Yahweh-shalom: to this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

  • Gen 28:17-19
    3 verses
    71%

    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 the top of it.

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

  • Exod 17:15
    71%

    15Moses built an altar, and called the name of it Yahweh our Banner.{Hebrew, Yahweh Nissi}

  • Gen 31:47-48
    2 verses
    71%

    47Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha,{"Jegar Sahadutha" means "Witness Heap" in Aramaic.} but Jacob called it Galeed.{"Galeed" means "Witness Heap" in Hebrew.}

    48Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed

  • Josh 22:34
    70%

    34The children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar [Ed]: For, [said they], it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.

  • Gen 31:45
    70%

    45Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

  • Gen 35:10
    70%

    10God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.

  • Gen 13:18
    70%

    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 35:1
    70%

    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."

  • 1 Kgs 18:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Yahweh came, saying, Israel shall be your name.

    32With the stones he built an altar in the name of Yahweh; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

  • Gen 21:33
    70%

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

  • Gen 31:13
    70%

    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."

  • 1 Sam 7:17
    70%

    17His return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel: and he built there an altar to Yahweh.

  • Gen 22:14
    70%

    14Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh-Jireh.{"Yahweh-Jireh" means "Yahweh is my provider."} As it is said to this day, "In Yahweh's mountain it will be provided.

  • Gen 26:33
    69%

    33He called it Shibah.{Shibah means "oath" or "seven."} Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba{Beersheba means "well of the oath" or "well of the seven"} to this day.

  • Exod 20:24
    69%

    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 oxen. In every place where I record my name I will come to you and I will bless you.

  • Gen 46:1
    69%

    1Israel traveled with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

  • Gen 35:21
    69%

    21Israel traveled, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

  • 2 Chr 33:4
    69%

    4He built altars in the house of Yahweh, of which Yahweh said, In Jerusalem shall my name be forever.

  • Gen 21:31
    68%

    31Therefore he called that place Beersheba,{Beersheba can mean "well of the oath" or "well of seven."} because they both swore there.

  • 1 Kgs 12:29
    68%

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

  • 2 Chr 33:16
    68%

    16He built up the altar of Yahweh, and offered thereon sacrifices of peace-offerings and of thanksgiving, and commanded Judah to serve Yahweh, the God of Israel.

  • Josh 22:26
    68%

    26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

  • 1 Chr 21:26
    68%

    26David built there an altar to Yahweh, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings, and called on Yahweh; and he answered him from the sky by fire on the altar of burnt offering.

  • Gen 28:11
    67%

    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.

  • 1 Kgs 16:32
    67%

    32He reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria.