Genesis 35:14

And Jacob put up a pillar in the place where he had been talking with God, and put a drink offering on it, and oil.

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And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.

In Context

13Then God went up from him in the place where he had been talking with him.

15And he gave to the place where God had been talking with him, the name of Beth-el.

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Cross References

Genesis 28:18And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.

Genesis 35:20And Jacob put up a pillar on her resting-place; which is named, The Pillar of the resting-place of Rachel, to this day.

1 Samuel 7:12Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 35:7-16

Jacob's Arrival at Bethel. ( b. c. 1732.) 6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is, Beth-el, he and all the people that were with him. 7 And he built there an altar, and called the place El-Beth-el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother. 8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath Beth-el under an oak: and the name of it was called Allon-bachuth. 9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him.… Read the whole commentary →

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