Genesis 12:8
And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east; he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9And Abram went forward, going, and proceeding on to the south.
Cross References
Genesis 4:26But to Seth also was born a son, whom he called Enos; this man began to call upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 13:4In the place of the altar which he had made before; and there he called upon the name of the Lord.
Genesis 26:25And he built there an altar: and called upon the name of the Lord, and pitched his tent: and commanded his servants to dig a well.
Genesis 31:25Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain: and when he with his brethren had overtaken him, he pitched his tent in the same mount of Galaad.
Genesis 35:3Arise, and let us go up to Bethel, that we may make there an altar to God: who heard me in the day of my affliction, and accompanied me in my journey.
Genesis 35:15And calling the name of that place 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 →