Genesis 35:10
saying: “You will no longer be called Jacob, for your name shall be Israel.” And he called him Israel,
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In Context
9Then God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:5No longer will your name be called Abram. But you will be called Abraham, for I have established you as the father of many nations.
Genesis 32:27Therefore he said, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”
1 Kings 18:31And he took twelve stones, in accord with the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
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 →