Genesis 12:8

New English Translation

Then he moved from there to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the Lord and worshiped the Lord.

Cross References

Genesis 13:18

So Abram moved his tents and went to live by the oaks of Mamre in Hebron, and he built an altar to the Lord there.

Genesis 13:3

And he journeyed from place to place from the Negev as far as Bethel. He returned to the place where he had pitched his tent at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai.

Genesis 13:4

This was the place where he had first built the altar, and there Abram worshiped the Lord.

Genesis 21:33

Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the Lord, the eternal God.

Genesis 22:9

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

Genesis 26:25

Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the Lord. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.

Genesis 28:19

He called that place Bethel, although the former name of the town was Luz.

Genesis 31:25

Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

Genesis 33:20

There he set up an altar and called it “The God of Israel is God.”

Genesis 35:3

Let us go up at once to Bethel. Then I will make an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress and has been with me wherever I went.”

Genesis 35:7

He built an altar there and named the place El Bethel because there God had revealed himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

Genesis 4:26

And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord.

Genesis 8:20

Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Nehemiah 11:31

Some of the descendants of Benjamin settled in Geba, Micmash, Aija, Bethel and its villages,

Psalm 116:4

I called on the name of the Lord, “Please Lord, rescue my life!”

Exodus 17:15

Moses built an altar, and he called it “The Lord is my Banner,”

Isaiah 10:28

They attacked Aiath, moved through Migron, depositing their supplies at Micmash.

Joel 2:32

It will so happen that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be delivered. For on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be those who survive, just as the Lord has promised; the remnant will be those whom the Lord will call.

Acts 2:21

And then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

1 Corinthians 1:2

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

Hebrews 11:9

By faith he lived as a foreigner in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs of the same promise.

Joshua 18:22

Beth Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,

Joshua 22:10

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built there, near the Jordan, an impressive altar.

Joshua 7:2

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

Joshua 8:12

He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai.

Joshua 8:17

No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.

Joshua 8:3

Joshua and the whole army marched against Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand brave warriors and sent them out at night.

Joshua 8:30

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

Joshua 8:9

Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place west of Ai, between Bethel and Ai. Joshua spent that night with the army.

Judges 6:24

Gideon built an altar for the Lord there, and named it “The Lord is on friendly terms with me.” To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

1 Samuel 30:27

The gift was for those in the following locations: for those in Bethel, Ramoth Negev, and Jattir;