He erected an altar there and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
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.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and there he called on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
Then the man said, “Your name will no more be called Jacob, but Israel. For you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
He bought a parcel of a field, where he had pitched his tent, from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver.
Now Dinah, the daughter of Leah, whom she bore to Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.
There he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because God had appeared to him there when he fled from his brother.
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.
So David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly, and David said, “Blessed are You, O Lord, the God of Israel, our Father forever and ever.
Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you all say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”