Genesis 35:7

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

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 35:1

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, dwell there, and there make an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”

Genesis 28:13

And behold, the Lord stood above it and said, “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. The land on which you lie, to you will I give it and to your descendants.

Ezekiel 48:35

The circumference shall be eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that day shall be, The Lord Is There.

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.

Exodus 17:15

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

Genesis 28:22

Then this stone, which I have set for a pillar, will be the house of God, and from all that You give me I will surely give one-tenth to You.”

Genesis 28:19

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

Genesis 12:7

The Lord appeared to Abram and said, “To your descendants I will give this land.” So he built an altar to the Lord, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 12:8

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.

Genesis 28:10

Then Jacob went out from Beer-sheba and went toward Harran.

Genesis 28:17

He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other but the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven.”

Genesis 29:1

Then Jacob went on his journey and came into the land of the people of the east.

Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the pillar, where you vowed a vow to Me. Now arise, and get out of this land, and return to the land of your family.’ ”

Genesis 35:15

So Jacob called the name of the place where God had spoken with him Bethel.