Genesis 28:19

The Passion Translation

He named that place Bethel; though the city was once called Luz.

Cross References

Genesis 48:3

Jacob said to Joseph, “The God who is more than enough appeared to me at Bethel in the land of Canaan where he blessed me!

Genesis 35:1

God said to Jacob, “Arise, go at once to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you were fleeing from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 12:8

From there, he journeyed on toward the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built another altar to Yahweh where he prayed and worshiped Yahweh.

Genesis 28:11

He encountered a certain place at sunset and camped there for the night. He took a stone from there, made it his pillow, and lay down to sleep.

Genesis 31:13

I am the God who appeared to you at 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 35:6

Jacob and all the people who were with him arrived in the land of Canaan at Luz, now known as Bethel.

Genesis 35:14

Jacob set up a stone pillar to memorialize the place where he had met with God. He poured over it a drink offering and anointed the pillar with oil.

Genesis 35:15

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

Joshua 8:12

He placed a smaller force of about five thousand men west of the city to set an ambush between Bethel and Ai.

Joshua 18:13

The border then went to the slope on the south side of Luz (that is, Bethel) then down to Ataroth Addar on the mountain south of Lower Beth Horon.

Genesis 35:7

He built an altar there and named it El-Bethel, because it was the place that God had unveiled himself when Jacob was running from his brother.

Joshua 16:2

From Bethel (that is, Luz), it crossed over to Arkite territory at Ataroth.

Judges 20:26

After losing again, the entire Israelite army went up to the house of God, and they sat there fasting and weeping before Yahweh all day until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.