Verse 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.

Referenced Verses

  • 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."
  • 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 28:13 : 13 Behold, 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 28:19 : 19 He called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of the city was Luz at the first.
  • Gen 28:22 : 22 then this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, will be God's house. Of all that you will give me I will surely give the tenth to you."
  • Exod 17:15 : 15 Moses built an altar, and called its name Yahweh our Banner.
  • Judg 6:24 : 24 Then Gideon built an altar there to Yahweh, and called it "Yahweh is Peace." To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
  • Eccl 5:4-5 : 4 When you vow a vow to God, don't defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow. 5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
  • Ezek 48:35 : 35 It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.