Genesis 12:8
And he moved from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to LORD, and called upon the name of LORD.
A Conservative Version
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In Context
9And Abram journeyed, going on still toward the South.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26And to Seth, to him also there was born a son, and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of LORD.
Genesis 13:4to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. And Abram called on the name of LORD there.
Genesis 26:25And he built an altar there, and called upon the name of LORD, and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.
Genesis 31:25And Laban came up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain. And Laban encamped with his brothers in the mountain of Gilead.
Genesis 35:3And let us arise, and go up to Bethel, and I will make there an altar to God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me on the way which I went.
Genesis 35:15And Jacob called the name of the place where God spoke with him, Bethel.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 12:7-10
Abram's Devotion. ( b. c. 1921.) 6 And Abram passed through the land unto the place of Sichem, unto the plain of Moreh. And the Canaanite was then in the land. 7 And the Lord appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land: and there builded he an altar unto the Lord , who appeared unto him. 8 And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Beth-el, and pitched his tent, having Beth-el on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the Lord , and called upon the… Read the whole commentary →