Genesis 12:8

Good News Translation (US Version)

After that, he moved on south to the hill country east of the city of Bethel and set up his camp between Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There also he built an altar and worshiped the Lord.

Cross References

Nehemiah 11:31

The people of the tribe of Benjamin lived in Geba, Michmash, Ai, Bethel and the nearby villages,

Genesis 4:26

Seth had a son whom he named Enosh. It was then that people began using the Lord's holy name in worship.

Genesis 21:33

Then Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba and worshiped the Lord, the Everlasting God.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to all who are called to be God's holy people, who belong to him in union with Christ Jesus, together with all people everywhere who worship our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Genesis 28:19

He named the place Bethel. (The town there was once known as Luz.)

Genesis 13:4

and had built an altar. There he worshiped the Lord.

Acts 2:21

And then, whoever calls out to the Lord for help will be saved.’

Joel 2:32

But all who ask the Lord for help will be saved. As the Lord has said, ‘Some in Jerusalem will escape; those whom I choose will survive.’”

Isaiah 10:28

The enemy army has captured the city of Ai! They have passed through Migron! They left their supplies at Michmash!

Psalm 116:4

Then I called to the Lord, “I beg you, Lord, save me!”

Joshua 18:22

Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Joshua 8:17

Every man in Ai went after the Israelites, and the city was left wide open, with no one to defend it.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua got ready to go to Ai with all his soldiers. He picked out thirty thousand of his best troops and sent them out at night

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent some men from Jericho to Ai, a city east of Bethel, near Bethaven, with orders to go and explore the land. When they had done so,

Genesis 35:3

We are going to leave here and go to Bethel, where I will build an altar to the God who helped me in the time of my trouble and who has been with me everywhere I have gone.”

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the country that God had promised him. He lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who received the same promise from God.

Genesis 8:20

Noah built an altar to the Lord; he took one of each kind of ritually clean animal and bird, and burned them whole as a sacrifice on the altar.

Genesis 13:3

Then he left there and moved from place to place, going toward Bethel. He reached the place between Bethel and Ai where he had camped before

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his camp and settled near the sacred trees of Mamre at Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 22:9

When they came to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Genesis 26:25

Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. Then he set up his camp there, and his servants dug another well.

Joshua 8:9

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to their hiding place and waited there, west of Ai, between Ai and Bethel. Joshua spent the night in camp.

Joshua 8:12

He took about five thousand men and put them in hiding west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.

1 Samuel 30:27

He sent it to the people in Bethel, to the people in Ramah in the southern part of Judah, and to the people in the towns of Jattir,

Genesis 31:25

Jacob had set up his camp on a mountain, and Laban set up his camp with his relatives in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 33:20

He put up an altar there and named it for El, the God of Israel.

Genesis 35:7

He built an altar there and named the place for the God of Bethel, because God had revealed himself to him there when he was running away from his brother.

Exodus 17:15

Moses built an altar and named it “The Lord is my Banner.”

Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel.

Joshua 22:10

When the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh arrived at Geliloth, still on the west side of the Jordan, they built a large, impressive altar there by the river.

Judges 6:24

Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and named it “The Lord is Peace.” (It is still standing at Ophrah, which belongs to the clan of Abiezer.)