Genesis 35:7

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

and there he built an altar and called the place El-bethel, because it was there that God had revealed himself to him when he fled from his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 12:7

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

Genesis 12:8

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

Genesis 28:10

Jacob left Beer-sheba and went toward Haran.

Genesis 28:13

And the Lord stood beside him and said, “I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring,

Genesis 28:17

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

Genesis 28:19

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

Genesis 28:22

and this stone, which I have set up for a pillar, shall be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will surely give one-tenth to you.”

Genesis 29:1

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

Genesis 31:13

I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and return to the land of your birth.’ ”

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Make an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:15

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

Genesis 35:3

then come, let us go up to Bethel, that I may make an altar there to the God who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Exodus 17:15

And Moses built an altar and called it, The Lord is my banner.

Ezekiel 48:35

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

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, “The Lord is peace.” To this day it still stands at Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.