Genesis 12:8

New American Bible - revised edition

From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel, pitching his tent with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. He built an altar there to the Lord and invoked the Lord by name.

Cross References

Nehemiah 11:31

Benjaminites were in Geba, Michmash, Aija, Bethel and its dependencies,

Genesis 4:26

To Seth, in turn, a son was born, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to invoke the Lord by name.

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk at Beer-sheba, and there he invoked by name the Lord, God the Eternal.

1 Corinthians 1:2

to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.

Genesis 28:19

He named that place Bethel, whereas the former name of the town had been Luz.

Genesis 13:4

the site where he had first built the altar; and there Abram invoked the Lord by name.

Acts 2:21

and it shall be that everyone shall be saved who calls on the name of the Lord.’

Isaiah 10:28

he has reached Aiath, passed through Migron, at Michmash he has stored his supplies.

Psalm 116:4

Then I called on the name of the Lord, “O Lord, save my life!”

Joshua 18:22

Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Joshua 8:17

not a soldier remained in Ai or Bethel. They abandoned the city, leaving it open, as they pursued Israel.

Joshua 8:3

So Joshua and all the soldiers prepared to attack Ai. Picking out thirty thousand warriors, Joshua sent them off by night

Joshua 7:2

Joshua next sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven and east of Bethel, with the order, “Go up and reconnoiter the land.” When they had explored Ai,

Genesis 35:3

Let us now go up to Bethel so that I might build an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and who has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Hebrews 11:9

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

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord, and choosing from every clean animal and every clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 13:3

From the Negeb he traveled by stages toward Bethel, to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly stood,

Genesis 13:18

Abram moved his tents and went on to settle near the oak of Mamre, which is at Hebron. There he built an altar to the Lord.

Genesis 22:9

When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he bound his son Isaac, and put him on top of the wood on the altar.

Genesis 26:25

So Isaac built an altar there and invoked the Lord by name. After he had pitched his tent there, Isaac’s servants began to dig a well nearby.

Joshua 8:9

Then Joshua sent them away. They went to the place of ambush, taking up their position to the west of Ai, toward Bethel. Joshua, however, spent that night with the army.

Joshua 8:12

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

1 Samuel 30:27

to those in Bethel, Ramoth-negeb, Jattir,

Genesis 31:25

When Laban overtook Jacob, Jacob’s tents were pitched in the hill country; Laban also pitched his tents in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 33:20

He set up an altar there and invoked “El, the God of Israel.”

Genesis 35:7

There he built an altar and called the place El-Bethel, for it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Exodus 17:15

Moses built an altar there, which he named Yahweh-nissi;

Joshua 8:30

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

Joshua 22:10

When the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh came to the region of the Jordan in the land of Canaan, they built an altar there at the Jordan, an impressively large altar.

Judges 6:24

So Gideon built there an altar to the Lord and called it Yahweh-shalom. To this day it is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.