There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
So Abram moved his tent, and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are at Hebron; and there he built an altar to the Lord.
Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beer-sheba, and called there on the name of the Lord, the Everlasting God.
Then he said, “Your name shall no more be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”
And from the sons of Hamor, Shechem's father, he bought for a hundred pieces of money the piece of land on which he had pitched his tent.
Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the women of the land;
and there he built an altar, and called the place El-bethel, because there God had revealed himself to him 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.
Therefore David blessed the Lord in the presence of all the assembly; and David said: “Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”