Genesis 35:8

God's Word

Rebekah’s nurse Deborah died and was buried under the oak tree outside Bethel. So Jacob called it the Tree of Crying.

Cross References

Genesis 24:59

So they let their sister Rebekah and her nurse go with Abraham’s servant and his men.

1 Chronicles 10:12

all the fighting men came and took away the dead bodies of Saul and his sons and brought them to Jabesh. They buried the bones under the oak tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted seven days.

Judges 2:1

The Messenger of the Lord went from Gilgal to Bochim. He said, “I brought you out of Egypt into the land that I swore to give to your ancestors. I said, ‘I will never break my promise  to you.

Judges 2:5

So they called that place Bochim [Those Who Cry]. They offered sacrifices there to the Lord.

Judges 4:5

She used to sit under the Palm Tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the mountains of Ephraim. The people of Israel would come to her for legal decisions.

1 Samuel 10:3

Keep going until you come to the oak tree at Tabor. There you will find three men on their way to worship God at Bethel: One will be carrying three young goats, one will be carrying three loaves of bread, and one will be carrying a ⌞full⌟ wineskin.

1 Samuel 31:13

They took the bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh. Then they fasted seven days.