Genesis 12:8

Modern English Version

From there he continued on to a mountain to the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tent and came and settled by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and built an altar to the Lord there.

Genesis 13:3

He continued on his journey from the Negev and came to Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,

Genesis 13:4

to the place where he first made an altar. There Abram called on the name of the Lord.

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.

Genesis 22:9

Then they came to the place that God had told him. So Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

Genesis 26:25

He built an altar there, called on the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac’s servants dug a well.

Genesis 28:19

He called the name of that place Bethel, but previously the name of the city was called Luz.

Genesis 31:25

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent on the mountain, and Laban with his kinsmen pitched in the mountains of Gilead.

Genesis 33:20

He erected an altar there and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

Genesis 35:3

Let us arise and go up to Bethel, and there I will make an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Genesis 35:7

There he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because God had appeared to him there when he fled from his brother.

Genesis 4:26

To Seth also was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call on the name of the Lord.

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Nehemiah 11:31

Some of the Benjamites settled from Geba onward, at Mikmash, Aija, and Bethel and their villages,

Psalm 116:4

Then I called upon the name of the Lord: “O  Lord, I beseech You, deliver my soul.”

Exodus 17:15

Then Moses built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner;

Isaiah 10:28

He has come against Aiath, he has passed through Migron; at Mikmash he has laid up his carriages.

Joel 2:32

And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the Lord has said, and among the survivors whom the Lord calls.

Acts 2:21

And whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.’

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all who in every place call on the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both their Lord and ours:

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he dwelt in the promised land, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs of the same promise,

Joshua 18:22

Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Joshua 22:10

The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh came near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built a very large altar by the Jordan.

Joshua 7:2

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel) and said to them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai.

Joshua 8:12

He took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, westward of the city.

Joshua 8:17

Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city wide open, and they pursued Israel.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, mighty men of valor, and sent them out at night.

Joshua 8:30

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

Joshua 8:9

So Joshua sent them out. They went to the place of ambush and took up a position between Bethel and Ai, westward of Ai, and Joshua spent the night among the people.

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar for the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. Even to this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

1 Samuel 30:27

to those who were in Bethel, in Ramoth of the Negev, and in Jattir;