Genesis 35:10
Saying: Thou shalt not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called him Israel.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9And God appeared again to Jacob, after he returned from Mesopotamia of Syria, and he blessed him,
Cross References
Genesis 17:5Neither shall thy name be called any more Abram: but thou shalt be called Abraham: because I have made thee a father of many nations.
Genesis 32:27And he said: What is thy name? He answered: Jacob.
1 Kings 18:31And he took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy 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 →