Genesis 28:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He was afraid and said, How to be feared and reverenced is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gateway to heaven!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is this place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ He was terrified and thought, This sacred place is awesome. It’s none other than God’s house and the entrance to heaven.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And being terrified, he said: "How terrible this place is! This is nothing other than the house of God and the gateway of heaven."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And trembling he said: How terrible is this place! This is no other but the house of God, and the gate of heaven.

Genesis 28:17 Cross References

Genesis 28:18

And Jacob 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 upon the top of it.

Genesis 28:22

and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.

2 Chronicles 5:14

so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD filled the house of God.

Psalm 68:35

O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: The God of Israel, he giveth strength and power unto his people Blessed be God.

Exodus 3:5

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 3:6

Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.

Ecclesiastes 5:1

Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God; for to draw nigh to hear is better than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

Matthew 17:6

And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid.

Luke 2:9

And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

Luke 8:35

And they went out to see what had come to pass; and they came to Jesus, and found the man, from whom the devils were gone out, sitting, clothed and in his right mind, at the feet of Jesus: and they were afraid.

1 Timothy 3:15

but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

Hebrews 10:21

and having a great priest over the house of God;

1 Peter 4:17

For the time is come for judgement to begin at the house of God: and if it begin first at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God?

Revelation 1:17

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,

Judges 13:22

And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.